A machine learning approach for improved BM25 retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1811-1814

  Svore, Krysta M ^a   Burges, Christopher J C ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

BM25; Learning to rank; Retrieval models; Web search

Indexed keywords

COMMON INFORMATION; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; LEARNING TO RANK; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MACHINE-LEARNING; PARAMETER-TUNING; REAL-WORLD; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; WEB DATA; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 74549202684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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