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COLING
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Translating Queries into Snippets for Improved Query Expansion
User logs of search engines have recently been applied successfully to improve various aspects of web search quality. In this paper, we will apply pairs of user queries and snippe...
Stefan Riezler, Yi Liu, Alexander Vasserman
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Estimation of statistical translation models based on mutual information for ad hoc information retrieval
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Regularizing translation models for better automatic image annotation
The goal of automatic image annotation is to automatically generate annotations for images to describe their content. In the past, statistical machine translation models have been...
Feng Kang, Rong Jin, Joyce Y. Chai
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Language modeling for voice search: A machine translation approach
This paper presents a novel approach to language modeling for voice search based on the idea and method of statistical machine translation. We propose an n-gram based translation ...
Xiao Li, Yun-Cheng Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A translation model for matching reviews to objects
We develop a generic method for the review matching problem, which is to match unstructured text reviews to a list of objects, where each object has a set of attributes. To this e...
Nilesh N. Dalvi, Ravi Kumar, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomki...