When documents are very long, BM25 fails

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1103-1104

  Lv, Yuanhua ^a   Zhai, Cheng Xiang ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

BM25; BM25L; Term frequency; Very long documents

Indexed keywords

BM25; BM25L; COMPUTATION COSTS; TERM FREQUENCY; TERM FREQUENCY NORMALIZATION; VERY LONG DOCUMENTS;

EID: 80052111651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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