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CICLING
2010
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A Sequential Model for Discourse Segmentation
Identifying discourse relations in a text is essential for various tasks in Natural Language Processing, such as automatic text summarization, question-answering, and dialogue gene...
Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishizuk...
IR
2008
15 years 2 months 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
EMNLP
2009
15 years 8 days ago
First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests
Many statistical translation models can be regarded as weighted logical deduction. Under this paradigm, we use weights from the expectation semiring (Eisner, 2002), to compute fir...
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
CLEF
2008
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
UniNE at Domain-Specific IR - CLEF 2008
Our first objective in participating in this domain-specific evaluation campaign is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the German, English and Russ...
Claire Fautsch, Ljiljana Dolamic, Jacques Savoy