Lower-bounding term frequency normalization

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 7-16

  Lv, Yuanhua ^a   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

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

Author keywords

BM25+; data analysis; DIR+; document length; formal constraints; lower bound; Pl2+; term frequency

Indexed keywords

BM25+; DIR+; DOCUMENT LENGTH; FORMAL CONSTRAINTS; LOWER BOUNDS; PL2+; TERM FREQUENCY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 83055187814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2063576.2063584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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