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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...
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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper presents a new dependence language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic language modeling approach based on unigram by relaxing th...
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SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
2004
ACM
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
2002
ACM
The optimal settings of retrieval parameters often depend on both the document collection and the query, and are usually found through empirical tuning. In this paper, we propose ...
CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
2001
Springer
The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...