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2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Parsimonious relevance models
We describe a method for applying parsimonious language models to re-estimate the term probabilities assigned by relevance models. We apply our method to six topic sets from test ...
Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maar...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Detecting synonyms in social tagging systems to improve content retrieval
Collaborative tagging used in online social content systems is naturally characterized by many synonyms, causing low precision retrieval. We propose a mechanism based on user pref...
Maarten Clements, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Product retrieval for grocery stores
We introduce a grocery retrieval system that maps shopping lists written in natural language into actual products in a grocery store. We have developed the system using nine month...
Petteri Nurmi, Eemil Lagerspetz, Wray L. Buntine, ...
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SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Measuring concept relatedness using language models
Over the years, the notion of concept relatedness has attracted considerable attention. A variety of approaches, based on ontology structure, information content, association, or ...
Dolf Trieschnigg, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, We...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
On document splitting in passage detection
Passages can be hidden within a text to circumvent their disallowed transfer. Such release of compartmentalized information is of concern to all corporate and governmental organiz...
Nazli Goharian, Saket S. R. Mengle