A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval

SIGIR 1998 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 275-281

  Ponte, Jay M ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MODELING LANGUAGES;

DOCUMENT INDEXING; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; ESTIMATE MODEL; INDEXING MODELS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MODELING APPROACH; NONPARAMETRICS; PROBABILISTIC LANGUAGE; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SINGLE MODELS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 79851479616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/290941.291008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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