Beyond bags of words: Modeling implicit user preferences in information retrieval

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1646-1649

  Metzler, Donald ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; USER PREFERENCES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 33750698930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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