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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
SAC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
An information retrieval model using the fuzzy proximity degree of term occurences
Based on the idea that the closer the query terms in a document are, the more relevant this document is, we propose a mathematical model of information retrieval based on a fuzzy ...
Michel Beigbeder, Annabelle Mercier
CICLING
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Multi Word Term Queries for Focused Information Retrieval
In this paper, we address both standard and focused retrieval tasks based on comprehensible language models and interactive query expansion (IQE). Query topics are expanded using a...
Eric SanJuan, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Mining dependency relations for query expansion in passage retrieval
Classical query expansion techniques such as the local context analysis (LCA) make use of term co-occurrence statistics to incorporate additional contextual terms for enhancing pa...
Renxu Sun, Chai-Huat Ong, Tat-Seng Chua
ECIR
2007
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz