Passage retrieval: A probabilistic technique

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-68

  Melucci, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; TEXT SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0031628054     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(97)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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