Information retrieval as statistical translation
Information retrieval as statistical translation
A. Berger,J. Lafferty
1999 · DOI: 10.1145/312624.312681
Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · 752 Citations
TLDR
A simple, well motivated model of the document-to-query translation process is proposed, and an algorithm for learning the parameters of this model in an unsupervised manner from a collection of documents is described.