Exploiting syntactic structure of queries in a language modeling approach to IR

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 476-483

  Srikanth, Munirathnam ^a   Srihari, Rohini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Language models; Natural Language Processing; Query Processing

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LANGUAGE MODELS; PROBABILISTIC RETRIEVAL; QUERY PROCESSING; USER QUERIES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 18744377502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956950.956952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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