Improvements to BM25 and language models examined

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 27-28-November-2014, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-65

  Trotman, Andrew ^a   Puurula, Antti ^a   Burgess, Blake ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Document Retrieval; Procrastination; Relevance Ranking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FEEDBACK; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SEARCH ENGINES;

DIRICHLET; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE MODEL; PROCRASTINATION; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RELEVANCE RANKING; TREC COLLECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84958534955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2682862.2682863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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