We propose a novel probabilistic method based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to learn the structure of a Latent Variable Model (LVM) for query language modeling. In the proposed...
Abstract. The identification of reliable and interesting items on Internet becomes more and more difficult and time consuming. This paper is a position paper describing our intend...
A distributed information retrieval system with resourceselection and resultset merging capability was used to search subsets of the GOV2 document corpus for the 2008 TREC Million...
Christopher T. Fallen, Gregory B. Newby, Kylie McC...
This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the TREC-10 questionanswering track. The question answering system described automatically finds ...
Jiangping Chen, Anne Diekema, Mary D. Taffet, Nanc...
: The University of Melbourne carried out experiments in the Terabyte and Web tracks of TREC 2004. We applied a further variant of our impact-based retrieval approach by integratin...