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IJCNLP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Empirical Study of Utilizing Morph-Syntactic Information in SMT
In this paper, we present an empirical study that utilizes morph-syntactical information to improve translation quality. With three kinds of language pairs matched according to mor...
Young-Sook Hwang, Taro Watanabe, Yutaka Sasaki
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
A generative retrieval model for structured documents
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Risk-Aware Information Retrieval
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Michael J. Taylor, Ingemar ...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting Thread Structures to Improve Smoothing of Language Models for Forum Post Retrieval
Due to many unique characteristics of forum data, forum post retrieval is different from traditional document retrieval and web search, raising interesting research questions abou...
Huizhong Duan, Chengxiang Zhai
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A comparative study of methods for estimating query language models with pseudo feedback
We systematically compare five representative state-of-theart methods for estimating query language models with pseudo feedback in ad hoc information retrieval, including two var...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai