A comparative study of methods for estimating query language models with pseudo feedback

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1895-1898

  Lv, Yuanhua ^a   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Feedback heuristics; Language models; Pseudo relevance feedback; Query language model

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ESTIMATION METHODS; FEEDBACK MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL; MIXTURE MODEL; PSEUDO RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; QUERY LANGUAGE MODEL; RELEVANCE MODELS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ESTIMATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATE FEEDBACK;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 74549206716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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