Utilizing passage-based language models for document retrieval

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4956 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 162-174

  Bendersky, Michael ^a   Kurland, Oren ^b  

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

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Document homogeneity; Passage language model; Passage based document retrieval; Passage based relevance model

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT HOMOGENEITY; PROBABILISTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY PROCESSING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 41849143005     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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