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IR
2010
14 years 10 months ago
A general approximation framework for direct optimization of information retrieval measures
Recently direct optimization of information retrieval (IR) measures becomes a new trend in learning to rank. Several methods have been proposed and the effectiveness of them has ...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 5 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
CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
SINAI at CLEF 2005: Multi-8 Two-Years-on and Multi-8 Merging-Only Tasks
This year, we have participated on multilingual two years on and Multi-8 merging-only CLEF task. Our main interest has been to test several usual CLIR tasks and investigate how th...
Fernando Martínez Santiago, Miguel Angel Ga...
CLEF
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A Dirichlet-Smoothed Bigram Model for Retrieving Spontaneous Speech
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak
IR
2011
14 years 3 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