Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography
Computational Linguistics
A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
A hidden Markov model information retrieval system
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Cluster-based language models for distributed retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Document language models, query models, and risk minimization for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Relevance based language models
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Model-based feedback in the language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Laplacian Eigenmaps for dimensionality reduction and data representation
Neural Computation
Language Modeling for Information Retrieval
Language Modeling for Information Retrieval
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Cluster-based retrieval using language models
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
PageRank without hyperlinks: structural re-ranking using links induced by language models
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of relevance propagation for web search
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Regularizing ad hoc retrieval scores
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Respect my authority!: HITS without hyperlinks, utilizing cluster-based language models
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Language model information retrieval with document expansion
HLT-NAACL '06 Proceedings of the main conference on Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
Smoothing document language models with probabilistic term count propagation
Information Retrieval
Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval A Critical Review
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Automatic Web Image Annotation via Web-Scale Image Semantic Space Learning
APWeb/WAIM '09 Proceedings of the Joint International Conferences on Advances in Data and Web Management
Enhancing Expert Finding Using Organizational Hierarchies
ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
Ranking-based clustering of heterogeneous information networks with star network schema
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Catching the drift: learning broad matches from clickthrough data
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Building enriched document representations using aggregated anchor text
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Reducing the risk of query expansion via robust constrained optimization
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for re-ranking search results
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Smoothing document language model with local word graph
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
A content based approach for discovering missing anchor text for web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
DivRank: the interplay of prestige and diversity in information networks
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Cross-lingual latent topic extraction
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Language pyramid and multi-scale text analysis
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A unified optimization framework for robust pseudo-relevance feedback algorithms
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query model refinement using word graphs
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for reranking search results
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Exploiting semantic tags in XML retrieval
INEX'09 Proceedings of the Focused retrieval and evaluation, and 8th international conference on Initiative for the evaluation of XML retrieval
Document expansion based on WordNet for robust IR
COLING '10 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters
Jigs and lures: associating web queries with structured entities
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
Discovering missing click-through query language information for web search
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Ranking support for keyword search on structured data using relevance models
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
We know what @you #tag: does the dual role affect hashtag adoption?
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Employing document dependency in blog search
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A document is known by the company it keeps: neighborhood consensus for short text categorization
Language Resources and Evaluation
Compact query term selection using topically related text
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smoothing methods have been proposed, which mostly implement various heuristics to exploit corpus structures. In this paper, we propose a general and unified optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures. This framework not only provides a unified formulation of the existing smoothing heuristics, but also serves as a road map for systematically exploring smoothing methods for language models. We follow this road map and derive several different instantiations of the framework. Some of the instantiations lead to novel smoothing methods. Empirical results show that all such instantiations are effective with some outperforming the state of the art smoothing methods.