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SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
A general optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...
Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai
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ACL
2009
14 years 10 months ago
Improved Smoothing for N-gram Language Models Based on Ordinary Counts
Kneser-Ney (1995) smoothing and its variants are generally recognized as having the best perplexity of any known method for estimating N-gram language models. Kneser-Ney smoothing...
Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk
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IR
2008
15 years 18 days ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Lightening the load of document smoothing for better language modeling retrieval
We hypothesized that language modeling retrieval would improve if we reduced the need for document smoothing to provide an inverse document frequency (IDF) like effect. We create...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
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ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 4 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