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CORR
2010
Springer
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A database approach to information retrieval: The remarkable relationship between language models and region models
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Djoerd Hiemstra, Vojkan Mihajlovic
IPM
2006
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A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
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...
Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
User biased document language modelling
Capitalizing on the intuitive underlying assumptions of Language Modelling for Ad-Hoc Retrieval we present a novel approach that is capable of injecting the user’s context of th...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Cornelis Joost van ...