An Empirical Study of Smoothing Techniques for Language Modeling
Stanley F. ChenJoshua GoodmanPublished in: CoRR (1996)
Keyphrases
- language modeling
- language model
- statistical language modeling
- language modeling approaches
- smoothing methods
- dirichlet prior
- document language models
- language models for information retrieval
- information retrieval
- language modeling framework
- cross lingual
- retrieval model
- document length
- n gram
- query expansion
- probabilistic model
- jelinek mercer
- term weighting
- text classification
- test collection
- statistical language models
- improvements in retrieval effectiveness
- document retrieval
- trec collections
- translation model
- relevance model
- pseudo relevance feedback
- vector space