We systematically compare five representative state-of-theart methods for estimating query language models with pseudo feedback in ad hoc information retrieval, including two var...
The problem of representing text documents within an Information Retrieval system is formulated as an analogy to the problem of representing the quantum states of a physical syste...
Alvaro Francisco Huertas-Rosero, Leif Azzopardi, C...
Abstract. Quantum theory (QT) has recently been employed to advance the theory of information retrieval (IR). A typical method, namely the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QP...
We reveal that the Okapi BM25 retrieval function tends to overly penalize very long documents. To address this problem, we present a simple yet effective extension of BM25, namel...
This report describes the English-Chinese crosslanguage retrieval experiments at Berkeley for TREC-9 Cross-Language Information Retrieval track. We present a simple and effective ...