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ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...
Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
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TREC
2007
14 years 10 months ago
York University at TREC 2007: Genomics Track
Our Genomics experiments in this year mainly focus on improving the passage retrieval performance in the biomedical domain. We address this problem by constructing different inde...
Xiangji Huang, Damon Sotoudeh-Hosseinii, Hashmat R...
TREC
2004
14 years 11 months ago
UIUC in HARD 2004--Passage Retrieval Using HMMs
UIUC participated in the HARD track in TREC 2004 and focused on the evaluation of a new method for identifying variable-length passages using HMMs. Most existing approaches to pas...
Jing Jiang, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 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
AAAI
2008
14 years 12 months ago
Concept-Based Feature Generation and Selection for Information Retrieval
Traditional information retrieval systems use query words to identify relevant documents. In difficult retrieval tasks, however, one needs access to a wealth of background knowled...
Ofer Egozi, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shaul Markovitch