Language Modeling for Information Retrieval /

This book contains the first collection of papers addressing recent developments in the design of information retrieval systems using language modeling techniques. Language modeling approaches are used in a variety of other language technologies, such as speech recognition and machine translation, a...

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Main Author: Croft, W. Bruce
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Lafferty, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
Series:Springer international series on information retrieval ; 13.
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Summary:This book contains the first collection of papers addressing recent developments in the design of information retrieval systems using language modeling techniques. Language modeling approaches are used in a variety of other language technologies, such as speech recognition and machine translation, and the book shows that applications such as Web search, cross-lingual search, filtering, and summarization can be described in the same formal framework. The book is intended primarily for researchers and advanced graduate students working in the language technologies areas of computer science or information science.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages)
ISBN:9789401701716 (electronic bk.)
9401701717 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:1387-5264 ;