Finite State Language Models Smoothed Using n-Grams.
David LlorensJuan Miguel VilarFrancisco CasacubertaPublished in: Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell. (2002)
Keyphrases
- finite state
- n gram
- language model
- language modeling
- markov chain
- markov decision processes
- document retrieval
- bag of words
- probabilistic model
- language modelling
- model checking
- information retrieval
- test collection
- retrieval model
- variable length
- optimal policy
- query expansion
- context sensitive
- language independent
- part of speech
- vector space model
- context free
- document ranking
- retrieval systems
- relevance model
- smoothing methods