Retrieval models for question and answer archives

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 475-482

  Xue, Xiaobing ^a   Jeon, Jiwoon ^b   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Language model; Question and answer retrieval; Translation model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

BASELINE METHODS; DOCUMENT RETRIEVALS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELS; QUESTION AND ANSWER RETRIEVAL; RETRIEVAL MODELS; TRANSLATION MODEL; WORD TRANSLATIONS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 57349131625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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