This paper presents a study of three statistical query translation models that use different units of translation. We begin with a review of a word-based translation model that us...
To locate a video clip in large collections is very important for retrieval applications, especially for digital rights management. In this paper, we present a novel technique for...
Song and Bruza [6] introduce a framework for Information Retrieval(IR) based on Gardenfor’s three tiered cognitive model; Conceptual Spaces[4]. They instantiate a conceptual spa...
In this paper, we propose a novel dependency language modeling approach for information retrieval. The approach extends the existing language modeling approach by relaxing the ind...
This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as eviden...