Title language model for information retrieval

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 42-48

  Jin, Rong ^a   Hauptmann, Alex G ^a   Zhai, ChengXiang ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Smoothing; Statistical translation model; Title language model

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; SMOOTHING METHOD; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION MODEL; TITLE LANGUAGE MODEL;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0036989475     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564384.564386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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