Using temporal profiles of queries for precision prediction

Proceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 18-24

  Diaz, Fernando ^a   Jones, Rosie ^b  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clarity; Language models; Precision prediction; Time

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONTENT-BASED FEATURES; INFORMATION SEARCH; LANGUAGE MODELS; PRECISION PREDICTION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 8644252773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008992.1008998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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