An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Modeling.
Stanley F. ChenJoshua GoodmanPublished in: ACL (1996)
Keyphrases
- language modeling
- language model
- statistical language modeling
- language modeling approaches
- smoothing methods
- document language models
- dirichlet prior
- language modeling framework
- information retrieval
- retrieval model
- document length
- language models for information retrieval
- query expansion
- cross lingual
- n gram
- probabilistic model
- jelinek mercer
- term weighting
- text classification
- document retrieval
- statistical language models
- relevance model
- pseudo feedback
- query terms
- image retrieval
- word segmentation
- trec collections
- mixture model
- principal component analysis