An explanation of the effectiveness of Latent Semantic Indexing by means of a Bayesian regression model

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 329-344

  Story, Roger E ^a  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN REGRESSION MODEL; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 0030151811     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4573(95)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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