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ECIR
2007
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Model Tree Learning for Query Term Weighting in Question Answering
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
Christof Monz
SIGIR
1999
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
CLEF
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
CLEF-2005 CL-SR at Maryland: Document and Query Expansion Using Side Collections and Thesauri
This paper reports results for the University of Maryland’s participation in CLEF-2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval track. Techniques that were tried include: (1) document ex...
Jianqiang Wang, Douglas W. Oard
TREC
2000
14 years 11 months ago
TREC-9 Cross Language, Web and Question-Answering Track Experiments using PIRCS
In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross Language, 10GB Web data ad-hoc retrieval as well as the Question-Answering tracks, all using automatic procedures. All thes...
Kui-Lam Kwok, Laszlo Grunfeld, Norbert Dinstl, M. ...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Estimation of statistical translation models based on mutual information for ad hoc information retrieval
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
Maryam Karimzadehgan, ChengXiang Zhai