Improving english and chinese ad-hoc retrieval: A tipster text phase 3 project report

Information Retrieval

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 313-338

  Kwok, K L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc two stage retrieval; Collection enrichment; Language model and PIRCS retrieval model; Pseudo relevance feedback; Segmentation and chinese IR

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001283644     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009955715597     Document Type: Article

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