Better than the real thing? Iterative pseudo-query processing using cluster-based language models

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-26

  Kurland, Oren ^a,b   Lee, Lillian ^a,b   Domshlak, Carmel ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

aspect recall; cluster based language models; clustering; language modeling; pseudo feedback; pseudo queries; query drift; rendition

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RECALL; CLUSTERING; LANGUAGE MODEL; PSEUDO-FEEDBACK; PSEUDO-QUERIES; QUERY DRIFT; RENDITION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84885608860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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