Beyond Independent Relevance: Methods and Evaluation Metrics for Subtopic Retrieval

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 10-17

  Zhai, ChengXiang ^a   Cohen, William W ^b   Lafferty, John ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Language models; Maximal marginal relevance; Subtopic retrieval

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE MODELS; MAXIMAL MARGINAL RELEVANCE (MMR); SUBTOPIC RETRIEVAL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 1542347826     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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