Incorporating Query Term Dependencies in Language Models for Document Retrieval

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 405-406

  Srikanth, Munirathnam ^a   Srihari, Rohini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Language models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; MAXIMUM BIGRAM PROBABILITY (MBG);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 1542317637     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/860500.860523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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