Title
A multi-dependency language modeling approach to information retrieval
Abstract
This paper presents a multi-dependency language modeling approach to information retrieval. The approach extends the basic KL-divergence retrieval approach by introducing the hybrid dependency structure, which includes syntactic dependency, syntactic proximity dependency and co-occurrence dependency, to describe dependencies between terms. Term and dependency language models are constructed for both document and query. The relevant between a document and a query is then evaluated by using the KL-divergence between their corresponding models. The new dependency retrieval model has been compared with other traditional retrieval models. Experiment results indicate that it produces significant improvements in retrieval effectiveness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-77018-3_48
PAKDD Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
basic kl-divergence retrieval approach,multi-dependency language modeling approach,information retrieval,dependency language model,hybrid dependency structure,retrieval effectiveness,syntactic dependency,co-occurrence dependency,new dependency retrieval model,syntactic proximity dependency,traditional retrieval model,language model
Divergence-from-randomness model,Query expansion,Information retrieval,Computer science,Dependency structure,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Vector space model,Term Discrimination,Syntax,Language model
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4819
0302-9743
3-540-77016-X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Keke Cai124315.36
Chun Chen24727246.28
Jiajun Bu34106211.52
Guang Qiu487830.76
Peng Huang542.77