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CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Focusing on novelty: a crawling strategy to build diverse language models
Word prediction performed by language models has an important role in many tasks as e.g. word sense disambiguation, speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, query spelling an...
Luciano Barbosa, Srinivas Bangalore
IPM
2007
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15 years 1 months ago
Parsimonious translation models for information retrieval
In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...
Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Predicting query performance
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features
New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we pre...
Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft, Joon Ho Lee, Soyeon P...
IR
2011
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling score distributions in information retrieval
We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
Avi Arampatzis, Stephen Robertson