Relevance data for language models using maximum likelihood

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1050-1061

  Bodoff, David ^a   Wu, Bin ^a   Wong, K Y Michael ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

RELEVANCE DATA; RELEVANCE JUDGMENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0041328369     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10300     Document Type: Article

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