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We describe the participation of Dublin City University (DCU) and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in INEX 2010 for the Adhoc and Data Centric tracks. The main contributions of this paper are: i) a simplified version of Hierarchical Language Model (HLM), which involves scoring XML elements with a combined probability of generating the given query from itself and the top level articl node, is shown to outperform the baselines of LM and VSM scoring of XML elements; ii) the Expectation Maximization (EM) feedback in LM is shown to be the most effective on the domain specific collection of IMDB; iii) automated removal of sentences indicating aspects of irrelevance from the narratives of INEX ad hoc topics is shown to improve retrieval effectiveness.
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Ganguly, D., Leveling, J., Jones, G.J.F., Palchowdhury, S., Pal, S., Mitra, M. (2011). DCU and ISI@INEX 2010: Adhoc and Data-Centric Tracks. In: Geva, S., Kamps, J., Schenkel, R., Trotman, A. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of Focused Retrieval. INEX 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6932. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23577-1_16
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