Risk-Aware information retrieval

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

Volumn 5478 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 17-28

  Zhu, Jianhan ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Taylor, Michael ^b   Cox, Ingemar J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC COST FUNCTIONS; BAYESIAN PERSPECTIVE; DIRICHLET; DOCUMENT RANKING; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELLING; LOGIT MODELS; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBABILISTIC RETRIEVAL; PROBABILITY SPACES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SCALAR QUANTITIES; SINGLE PARAMETER; VARIABLE SPACE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COST FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

EID: 67650701990     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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