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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
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
CLEF
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion Using Side Collections and Thesauri
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
TREC-9 Cross Language, Web and Question-Answering Track Experiments using PIRCS
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Estimation of statistical translation models based on mutual information for ad hoc information retrieval
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai