Parsimonious translation models for information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-145

  Na, Seung Hoon ^a   Kang, In Su ^a   Lee, Jong Hyeok ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Language model; Parsimonious translation model; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LANGUAGE MODEL; PARSIMONIOUS TRANSLATION MODEL; QUERY EXPANSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 33748316409     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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