Probabilistic model for contextual retrieval

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 57-63

  Wen, Ji Rong ^a   Lao, Ni ^b   Ma, Wei Ying ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contextual Retrieval; Probabilistic Model; Query Expansion; Query Log

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

CONTEXTUAL RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SEARCH; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; QUERY EXPANSION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 8644265239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008992.1009005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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