A proximity language model for information retrieval

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 291-298

  Zhao, Jinglei ^a   Yun, Yeogirl ^b  

^a iZENEsoft (Shanghai) Company Ltd   (China)

^b Wisenut Inc   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Proximity language model; Proximity model

Indexed keywords

BAG OF WORDS; DIRICHLET; DOCUMENT LANGUAGE MODELS; HYPER-PARAMETER; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELING; PROXIMITY LANGUAGE MODEL; PROXIMITY MEASURE; PROXIMITY MODEL; QUERY TERMS; RANKING MODEL;

EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 72449195787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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