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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
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...
CICLING
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2010
Springer
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...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper presents a new dependence language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic language modeling approach based on unigram by relaxing th...
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2005
Springer
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2002
ACM
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...