Positional language models for information retrieval

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 299-306

  Lv, Yuanhua ^a   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Passage retrieval; Positional language models; Proximity

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOXES; DENSITY FUNCTIONS; DOCUMENT RANKING; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELING; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY TERMS; RETRIEVAL HEURISTICS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; TEST COLLECTION; UNIFIED LANGUAGE;

HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 72449194781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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