Ontology learning from text: A look back and into the future

W Wong, W Liu, M Bennamoun - ACM computing surveys (CSUR), 2012 - dl.acm.org
Ontologies are often viewed as the answer to the need for interoperable semantics in
modern information systems. The explosion of textual information on the Read/Write Web …

Statistical language models for information retrieval a critical review

CX Zhai - Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, 2008 - nowpublishers.com
Statistical language models have recently been successfully applied to many information
retrieval problems. A great deal of recent work has shown that statistical language models …

The probabilistic relevance framework: BM25 and beyond

S Robertson, H Zaragoza - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2009 - nowpublishers.com
Abstract The Probabilistic Relevance Framework (PRF) is a formal framework for document
retrieval, grounded in work done in the 1970–1980s, which led to the development of one of …

[LIBRO][B] An introduction to information retrieval

CD Manning - 2009 - edl.emi.gov.et
As recently as the 1990s, studies showed that most people preferred getting information
from other people rather than from information retrieval systems. Of course, in that time …

[LIBRO][B] Modern information retrieval

R Baeza-Yates, B Ribeiro-Neto - 1999 - people.ischool.berkeley.edu
Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

[PDF][PDF] Latent semantic indexing: A probabilistic analysis

CH Papadimitriou, H Tamaki, P Raghavan… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - dl.acm.org
Latent semantic indexing (LX) is an information retrieval technique based on the spectral
analysis of the term-document matrix, whose empirical success had heretofort been without …

A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to ad hoc information retrieval

C Zhai, J Lafferty - ACM Sigir Forum, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Language modeling approaches to information retrieval are attractive and promising
because they connect the problem of retrieval with that of language model estimation, which …

Probabilistic models of information retrieval based on measuring the divergence from randomness

G Amati, CJ Van Rijsbergen - ACM Transactions on Information Systems …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
We introduce and create a framework for deriving probabilistic models of Information
Retrieval. The models are nonparametric models of IR obtained in the language model …

A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval

C Zhai, J Lafferty - ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2004 - dl.acm.org
Language modeling approaches to information retrieval are attractive and promising
because they connect the problem of retrieval with that of language model estimation, which …

A markov random field model for term dependencies

D Metzler, WB Croft - Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via
Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as …