A new robust relevance model in the language model framework

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 991-1007

  Li, Xiaoyan ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback; Language modeling; Query expansion; Relevance models

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES;

LANGUAGE MODELS; LINEAR COMBINATION MODELS; QUERY EXPANSION; RELEVANCE MODELS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 40649118468     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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