In this paper we explore the use of parsimonious language models for web retrieval. These models are smaller thus more efficient than the standard language models and are therefor...
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...
The consideration of Product information or Knowledge management, product traceability or genealogy, and product life cycle management implies new strategies and approaches to mana...
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
We propose that the information access behavior of a group of people can be modeled as an information flow issue, in which people intentionally or unintentionally influence and in...
Xiaodan Song, Belle L. Tseng, Ching-Yung Lin, Ming...