SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
In recent years, statistical language models are being proposed as alternative to the vector space model. Viewing documents as language samples introduces the issue of defining a...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2004
ACM
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
We investigates language models for informational and navigational web search. Retrieval on the web is a task that differs substantially from ordinary ad hoc retrieval. We perfor...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper describes a system for handwritten Chinese text recognition integrating language model. On a text line image, the system generates character segmentation and word segme...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
A voice search system requires a speech interface that can correctly recognize spoken queries uttered by users. The recognition performance strongly relies on a robust language mo...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Performance of n-gram language models depends to a large extent on the amount of training text material available for building the models and the degree to which this text matches...
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Mobile devices can produce continuous streams of data which are often specific to the person carrying them. We show that cell phone tracks from the MIT Reality dataset can be u...
WSDM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper proposes a novel application of a statistical language model to opinionated document retrieval targeting weblogs (blogs). In particular, we explore the use of the trigg...