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SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
WSC
1996
14 years 11 months ago
Experimental Evaluation of Confidence Interval Procedures in Sequential Steady-State Simulation
Sequential analysis of simulation output is generally accepted as the most efficient way for securing representativeness of samples of collected observations. In this scenario a s...
Donald C. McNickle, Krzysztof Pawlikowski, Gregory...
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Investigating the exhaustivity dimension in content-oriented XML element retrieval evaluation
INEX, the evaluation initiative for content-oriented XML retrieval, has since its establishment defined the relevance of an element according to two graded dimensions, exhaustivit...
Paul Ogilvie, Mounia Lalmas
ECML
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Optimizing Local Probability Models for Statistical Parsing
Abstract. This paper studies the properties and performance of models for estimating local probability distributions which are used as components of larger probabilistic systems â€...
Kristina Toutanova, Mark Mitchell, Christopher D. ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
143views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Enhanced generalized ant programming (EGAP)
This paper begins by reviewing different methods of automatic programming while emphasizing the technique of Ant Programming (AP). AP uses an ant foraging metaphor in which ants g...
Amirali Salehi-Abari, Tony White