Cumulative Progress in Language Models for Information Retrieval

Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2013, ALTA 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 96-100

  Puurula, Antti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL;

AD HOC IR; AD HOC RETRIEVAL; BASELINE MODELS; DIRICHLET PRIOR; FEATURE WEIGHTING; LANGUAGE MODEL; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84946202103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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