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ACL
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar Words
Bootstrapping semantics from text is one of the greatest challenges in natural language learning. We first define a word similarity measure based on the distributional pattern of ...
Dekang Lin
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term
This paper follows a formal approach to information retrieval based on statistical language models. By introducing some simple reformulations of the basic language modeling approa...
Djoerd Hiemstra
ICANNGA
2007
Springer
120views Algorithms» more  ICANNGA 2007»
16 years 19 days ago
Evolutionary Approach to the Game of Checkers
A new method of genetic evolution of linear and nonlinear evaluation functions in the game of checkers is presented. Several practical issues concerning application of genetic algo...
Magdalena Kusiak, Karol Waledzik, Jacek Mandziuk
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
A formal study of information retrieval heuristics
Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...
Hui Fang, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Risk minimization and language modeling in text retrieval dissertation abstract
tion Abstract ChengXiang Zhai (Advisor: John Lafferty) Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University With the dramatic increase in online in...
ChengXiang Zhai