Analyzing the properties of smoothing methods for language models.
Feng-Long HuangMing-Shing YuPublished in: SMC (2001)
Keyphrases
- smoothing methods
- language model
- language modeling
- probabilistic model
- language models for information retrieval
- document length
- n gram
- information retrieval
- test collection
- retrieval model
- document retrieval
- language modelling
- mixture model
- query expansion
- language modeling approaches
- statistical language models
- search engine
- document ranking
- query specific
- vector space model
- active learning
- ir models
- query terms
- image database
- dirichlet prior
- multimedia