Joint ranking for multilingual web search

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

Volumn 5478 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 114-125

  Wei, Wei Gao ^a   Cheng, Niu ^b   Ming, Zhou ^b   Kam Fai, Wong ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN LAYERS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTI-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODELS; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RANKING MODEL; RELEVANCE SCORE; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVAL EVALUATION; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; WEB SEARCHES;

GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 67650704856     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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