DocumentCode
2814980
Title
Language model-based retrieval for Farsi documents
Author
Taghva, Kazem ; Coombs, Jeffrey ; Pareda, Ray ; Nartker, Tom
Author_Institution
Inf. Sci. Res. Inst., Nevada Univ., Las Vegas, NV, USA
Volume
2
fYear
2004
fDate
5-7 April 2004
Firstpage
13
Abstract
We report on an application of language modeling techniques to the retrieval of Farsi documents. We discovered that language modeling improves the precision of retrieval when compared to a standard vector space model.
Keywords
computational linguistics; document handling; information retrieval; natural languages; probability; Farsi documents; language model-based retrieval; standard vector space model; Design for experiments; Frequency estimation; Information retrieval; Information science; Maximum likelihood estimation; Natural languages; Probability distribution; Space technology; Speech recognition; Standards development;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2108-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286582
Filename
1286582
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