Context-sensitive semantic smoothing for the language modeling approach to genomic IR

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 170-177

  Zhou, Xiaohua ^a   Hu, Xiaohua ^a   Zhang, Xiaodan ^a   Lin, Xia ^a   Song, Il Yeol ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept pair; Genomic information retrieval; Information retrieval; Language models; Semantic smoothing; Topic signature

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY PROCESSING;

CONCEPT PAIR; GENOMIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE MODELS; SEMANTIC SMOOTHING; TOPIC SIGNATURE;

SEMANTICS; SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 33750344685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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