Extracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 572-579

  Li, Xiao ^a   Wang, Ye Yi ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional random fields; Information extraction; Metadata; Semi supervised learning

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; DATA SOURCE; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LABEL INFORMATION; ONE STEP; PRACTICAL METHOD; QUERY TERMS; SEARCH QUERIES; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STRUCTURED DOCUMENT; STRUCTURED INFORMATION; USER QUERY;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DATA STRUCTURES; EDUCATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; LABELS; METADATA;

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 72449184564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1572039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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