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ECIR
2004
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents
Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a spec...
Mohammad Abolhassani, Norbert Fuhr
IPM
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
ICTAI
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Hierarchical Language Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora
Enterprise corpora contain evidence of what employees work on and therefore can be used to automatically find experts on a given topic. We present a general approach for represen...
Desislava Petkova, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra