On setting the hyper-parameters of term frequency normalization for information retrieval

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  He, Ben ^a   Ounis, Iadh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collection dependence; Information retrieval models; Query dependence; Relevance feedback; Term frequency normalization; TREC experimentation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COLLECTION-DEPENDENCE; QUERY DEPENDENCE; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; TERM FREQUENCY NORMALIZATION; TREC EXPERIMENTATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547452270     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1247715.1247719     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. AMATI, G. 2003. Probabilistic models for information retrieval based on divergence from randomness. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.
2. AMATI, G., CARPINETO, C., AND ROMANO, G. 2004. Fondazione Ugo Bordoni at TREC 2004. In Proceedings of the 13th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2004) (Gaithersburg, MD).
3. AMATI, G. AND VAN RIJSBERGEN, C. J. 2002. Probabilistic models of information retrieval based on measuring the divergence from randomness. In ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. (TOIS) 20, 4.
4. BUCKLEY, C., SALTON, G., AND ALLAN, J. 1992. Automatic retrieval with locality information using Smart. In Proceedings of the 1st Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-1) (Gaithersburg, MD).
5. DEGROOT, M. 1989. Probability and Statistics, 2nd edition ed. Addison Wesley, Reading, MA.
6. EFTHIMIADIS, N. E. 1996. Query expansion. In Ann. Rev. Inf. Syst. Tech. 31.
7. HAWKING, D. 2000. Overview of the TREC-9 Web Track. In Proceedings of the 9th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-9) (Gaithersburg, MD).
8. HAWKING, D. AND CRASWELL, N. 2001. Overview of the TREC 2001 Web Track. In Proceedings of the 10th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-10) (Gaithersburg, MD).
9. HAWKING, D., VOORHEES, E., CRASWELL, N., AND BAILEY, P. 1999. Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track. In Proceedings of the 9th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8) (Gaithersburg, MD).
10. HE, B. AND OUNIS, I. 2005. A study of the Dirichlet Priors for term frequency normalization. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Salvador, Brazil). ACM, New York.
11. OUNIS, I., AMATI, G., PLACHOURAS, V., HE, B., MACDONALD, C., AND LIONA, C 2006. Terrier: A high performance and scalable Information Retrieval platform. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR OSIR Workshop 2006 (Seattle, WA).
12. ROBERTSON, S.E., WALKER, S., BEAULIEU, M. M., GATFORD, M., AND PAYNE, A. 1995. Okapi at TREC-4. In MST Special Publication 500-236: The 4th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-4) (Gaithersburg, MD).
13. ROCCHIO, J. 1971. Relevance feedback in information retrieval. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
14. SINGHAL, A., BUCKLEY, C., AND MITRA, M. 1996. Pivoted document length normalization. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Zurich, Switzerland). ACM, New York.
15. VAN RIJSBERGEN, C J. 1979. Information Retrieval, 2nd edition. Department of Computer Science, Univ. Glasgow.
16. ZHAI, C AND LAFFERTY, J. 2001. A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to ad hoc information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (New Orleans, LA). ACM, New York.