Learning term-weighting functions for similarity measures

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 793-802

  Yih, Wen Tau ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COSINE SIMILARITY MEASURES; LEARNING PROCEDURES; MODEL PARAMETERS; ONLINE ADVERTISING; QUERY SUGGESTION; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SIMILARITY SCORES; TERM WEIGHTING SCHEME;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79957966387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699571.1699616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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