Dependency structure language model for topic detection and tracking

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1249-1259

  Lee, Changki ^a   Lee, Gary Geunbae ^b   Jang, Myunggil ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

Dependency parse tree; Dependency structure language model; Term dependence; Topic detection and tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DEPENDENCY PARSE TREE; DEPENDENCY STRUCTURE LANGUAGE MODELS; TERM DEPENDENCE; TOPIC DETECTION AND TRACKING;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 34247486142     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.02.007     Document Type: Article

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