Language Model Smoothing

Language Model Smoothing is a statistical technique used in probabilistic information retrieval that adjusts the probability estimates of a language model to account for unseen or rare word sequences by redistributing probability mass from observed events to unobserved ones, thereby preventing zero probabilities and improving generalization.

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2017–2026

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  1. CZ
    ChengXiang Zhai

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    7 publications · 4K citations

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  2. HN
    Hermann Ney

    RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    5 publications · 155 citations

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  3. JL
    John Lafferty

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    4 publications · 3.9K citations

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  4. SF
    Stanley F. Chen

    IBM (United States), United States

    4 publications · 3.5K citations

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  5. RK
    Roland Kühn

    National Research Council Canada, Canada

    4 publications · 177 citations

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 3 publications · 275 citations

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  2. ArXiv.org

    Repository · 2 publications · 772 citations

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  4. Information Retrieval

    2 publications · 67 citations

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