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KDD
1998
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Modeling for Information Retrieval with Unsupervised Training Data
We apply a well-known Bayesian probabilistic model to textual information retrieval: the classification of documents based on their relevance to a query. This model was previously...
Ernest P. Chan, Santiago Garcia, Salim Roukos
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Document Length Priors for Language Models
This paper addresses the issue of devising a new document prior for the language modeling (LM) approach for Information Retrieval. The prior is based on term statistics, derived in...
Roi Blanco, Alvaro Barreiro
CIKM
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Unified Environment for Fusion of Information Retrieval Approaches
Prior work has shown that combining results of various retrieval approaches and query representations can improve search effectiveness. Today, many meta-search engines exist which...
M. Catherine McCabe, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Gro...
SIGIR
1995
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Probability Kinematics in Information Retrieval
We analyse the kinematics of probabilistic term weights at retrieval time for di erent Information Retrieval models. We present four models based on di erent notions of probabilis...
Fabio Crestani, C. J. van Rijsbergen
ISI
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
A Generative Model for Statistical Determination of Information Content from Conversation Threads
We present a generative model for determining the information content of a message without analyzing the message content. Such a tool is useful for automated analysis of the vast ...
Yingjie Zhou, Malik Magdon-Ismail, William A. Wall...