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ChengXiang Zhai

CZ

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Publications

255

Citations

28.2K

H-Index

79

Active since

1996

Affiliations

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(Current)

Carnegie Mellon University

ChengXiang Zhai is an author at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign specializing in computing, computer science, and natural language processing.

Publications per year

1996–2025

255

Publications

255

A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval

ChengXiang Zhai, John Lafferty · ACM SIGIR Forum · 2017 · 1.6K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics +10

Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?

Zachary Stephens, Skylar Y. Lee, Faraz Faghri et al. · PLoS Biology · 2015 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Computing, Bioinformatics, Data Science +5

A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval

ChengXiang Zhai, John Lafferty · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 2004 · 1.2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics +13

A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval

ChengXiang Zhai, John Lafferty · 2001 · 885 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics +10

Topic sentiment mixture

Qiaozhu Mei, Xu Ling, Matthew Wondra et al. · 2007 · 814 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Data Science +15

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