An empirical study of smoothing techniques for language modeling.
Stanley F. ChenJoshua GoodmanPublished in: Comput. Speech Lang. (1999)
Keyphrases
- language modeling
- language model
- statistical language modeling
- language modeling approaches
- smoothing methods
- dirichlet prior
- document language models
- language models for information retrieval
- language modeling framework
- retrieval model
- information retrieval
- query expansion
- n gram
- document length
- jelinek mercer
- cross lingual
- probabilistic model
- pseudo feedback
- text classification
- document retrieval
- improvements in retrieval effectiveness
- word segmentation
- statistical language models
- term weighting
- test collection
- similarity measure