TREC
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
LREC
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
News articles about the same event published over time have properties that challenge NLP and IR applications. A cluster of such texts typically exhibits instances of paraphrase a...
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2001
Springer
The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
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...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we propose a novel dependency language modeling approach for information retrieval. The approach extends the existing language modeling approach by relaxing the ind...
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper presents the LIG contribution to the CLEF 2007 medical retrieval task (i.e. ImageCLEFmed). The main idea in this paper is to incorporate medical knowledge in the langua...