Frequentist and bayesian approach to information retrieval

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3936 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 13-24

  Amati, Giambattista ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

BAYESIAN (TYPE II) APPROACH; COMBINATORIAL APPROACH; HYPERGEOMETRIC MODELS; LANGUAGE MODELLING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33745867925     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11735106_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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