Information retrieval as statistical translation

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 222-229

  Berger, Adam ^a   Lafferty, John ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MODELING LANGUAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; QUERY TRANSLATIONS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84902975388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/312624.312681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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