Optimizing two-stage bigram language models for IR

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1125-1126

  Javanmardi, Sara ^a   Gao, Jianfeng ^b   Wang, Kuansan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

bigram LM; parameter tuning; retrieval model

Indexed keywords

BIGRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; COMPONENT MODEL; ENGINEERING CHALLENGES; FREE PARAMETERS; HIGHER ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER LANGUAGES; LINEAR RANKING; PARAMETER-TUNING; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TWO STAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; TUNING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MODELS;

EID: 77954601057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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