Topic signature language models for ad hoc retrieval

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1276-1287

  Zhou, Xiaohua ^a,b   Hu, Xiaohua ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaodan ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Drexel University

Author keywords

Concept; Information retrieval; Language model; Multiword phrase; Semantic smoothing; Topic signature

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

LANGUAGE MODEL; MULTIWORD PHRASE; SEMANTIC SMOOTHING; TOPIC SIGNATURE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34547970247     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2007.1058     Document Type: Article

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