Language models for information retrieval

Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3-7

  Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SEARCH; LANGUAGE MODELS; RETRIEVAL MODELS;

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0344927816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2003.1260777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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