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QI
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Structured Information Retrieval and Quantum Theory
Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document struc...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
A Novel Re-ranking Approach Inspired by Quantum Measurement
Abstract. Quantum theory (QT) has recently been employed to advance the theory of information retrieval (IR). A typical method, namely the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QP...
Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song, Yuexian Hou
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Characterising through Erasing: A Theoretical Framework for Representing Documents Inspired by Quantum Theory
The problem of representing text documents within an Information Retrieval system is formulated as an analogy to the problem of representing the quantum states of a physical syste...
Alvaro Francisco Huertas-Rosero, Leif Azzopardi, C...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
What can quantum theory bring to information retrieval
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval
Abstract. While the Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval provides the basis for formal models, it makes a very strong assumption regarding the dependence between...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen