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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A study of statistical models for query translation: finding a good unit of translation
This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic hyperspace analogue to language
Song and Bruza [6] introduce a framework for Information Retrieval(IR) based on Gardenfor’s three tiered cognitive model; Conceptual Spaces[4]. They instantiate a conceptual spa...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Malcolm Crowe
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Integrating word relationships into language models
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...
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jing Bai
SIGDOC
2004
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Semantic thumbnails: a novel method for summarizing document collections
The concept of thumbnails is common in image representation. A thumbnail is a highly compressed version of an image that provides a small, yet complete visual representation to th...
Arijit Sengupta, Mehmet M. Dalkilic, James C. Cost...