Assessment of smoothing methods and complex stochastic language modeling.
Sven C. MartinChristoph HamacherJörg LiermannFrank WesselHermann NeyPublished in: EUROSPEECH (1999)
Keyphrases
- language modeling
- language model
- smoothing methods
- language modeling approaches
- retrieval model
- information retrieval
- document length
- probabilistic model
- statistical language models
- cross lingual
- query expansion
- document retrieval
- document language models
- finite state transducers
- language models for information retrieval
- mixture model
- n gram
- term weighting
- sentence retrieval
- language modeling framework
- dirichlet prior
- vector space model
- relevance model
- query terms
- co occurrence
- test collection
- jelinek mercer
- relevant documents
- feature vectors
- database systems
- feature selection