Exploiting thread structures to improve smoothing of language models for forum post retrieval

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6611 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 350-361

  Duan, Huizhong ^a   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Forum post retrieval; Language modeling; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DOCUMENT LANGUAGE MODELS; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; FORUM POST RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE MODEL; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; SMOOTHING; SMOOTHING METHODS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 85025157437     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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