Combining the language model and inference network approaches to retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 735-750

  Metzler, Donald ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

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

Author keywords

Inference network model; Language modeling; Structured query language

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORK; INFERENCE NETWORK MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELLING; STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 3042817631     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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