Parsimonious language models for information retrieval

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 178-185

  Hiemstra, Djoerd ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^b   Zaragoza, Hugo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Language models; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; FEEDBACK; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LANGUAGE MODELS; LINEAR COMBINATION RELEVANCE MODELS; PARSIMONIOUS MODELS; TREC COLLECTIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 8644273331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008992.1009025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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