A study of Poisson query generation model for information retrieval

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 319-326

  Mei, Qiaozhu ^a   Fang, Hui ^a   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Formal models; Poisson process; Query generation; Term dependent smoothing

Indexed keywords

FORMAL MODELS; POISSON PROCESS; QUERY GENERATION; TERM DEPENDENT SMOOTHING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 36448955332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277797     Document Type: Article

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