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INEX
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Parameter Estimation for a Simple Hierarchical Generative Model for XML Retrieval
Abstract. This paper explores the possibility of using a modified Expectation-Maximization algorithm to estimate parameters for a simple hierarchical generative model for XML retr...
Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Why off-the-shelf RDBMSs are better at XPath than you might expect
To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms have become the prev...
Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Iterative translation disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval
Finding a proper distribution of translation probabilities is one of the most important factors impacting the effectiveness of a crosslanguage information retrieval system. In th...
Christof Monz, Bonnie J. Dorr
CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Unified utility maximization framework for resource selection
This paper presents a unified utility framework for resource selection of distributed text information retrieval. This new framework shows an efficient and effective way to infer ...
Luo Si, James P. Callan