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Query Likelihood Model

Query Likelihood Model is a probabilistic retrieval model that ranks documents based on the likelihood of a query being generated from their language model, typically estimated using maximum likelihood or smoothed probability distributions.

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92

Authors

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2017–2026

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Publications

36

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

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Retrieval models for question and answer archives

Xiaobing Xue, Jiwoon Jeon, W. Bruce Croft · 2008 · 371 citations

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Time-based language models

Xiaoyan Li, W. Bruce Croft · 2003 · 272 citations

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Estimation methods for ranking recent information

Miles Efron, Gene Golovchinsky · 2011 · 113 citations

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Towards query log based personalization using topic models

Mark Carman, Fábio Crestani, Morgan Harvey et al. · 2010 · 77 citations

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Authors

92

  1. WB
    W. Bruce Croft

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    6 publications · 869 citations

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  2. RZ
    Ruqing Zhang

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  3. JG
    Jiafeng Guo

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  4. XC
    Xueqi Cheng

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  5. YL
    Yingyan Li

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    2 publications · 50 citations

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Institutions

41

  1. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    12 publications

    462 citations

  3. Institute of Computing Technology

    Beijing, China

    3 h-index

    12 publications

    462 citations

  4. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    230 citations

  5. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    122 citations

  6. University of Massachusetts Boston

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    592 citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    81 citations

  8. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

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Venues

  1. ACM Transactions on Information Systems

    3 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 2 publications · 37 citations

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  3. Information Systems

    1 publications · 38 citations

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  4. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)

    Repository · 1 publications · 19 citations

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  5. Journal of Information Science

    JIS · 1 publications · 22 citations

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