Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
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...