Unsupervised estimation of dirichlet smoothing parameters

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 759-760

  Seo, Jangwon ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet smoothing; Parameter estimation; Unsupervised approach

Indexed keywords

DIRICHLET; RELEVANCE JUDGMENT; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SMOOTHING PARAMETER; TRAINING DATA; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; USER INFORMATION NEED;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77956024376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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