Direct maximization of average precision by hill-climbing, with a comparison to a maximum entropy approach

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 93-96

  Morgan, William ^a   Greiff, Warren ^a   Henderson, John ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

HILL CLIMBING; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY APPROACHES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; TERM WEIGHT;

EID: 77955854474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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