Investigating the Relationship between Language Model Perplexity and IR Precision-Recall Measures

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 369-370

  Azzopardi, Leif ^a   Girolami, Mark ^a   Van Risjbergen, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language Model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS;

LANGUAGE MODELS; LEAST SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES (LSD);

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542287452     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/860500.860505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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