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A language modeling approach to information retrieval

Ponte, Jay M., Croft, W. Bruce·1998·Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
DOI 10.1145/290941.291008
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Article A language modeling approach to information retrieval Share on Authors: Jay M. Ponte Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, AmherstView Profile , W. Bruce Croft Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, AmherstView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrievalAugust 1998 Pages 275–281https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.291008Online:01 August 1998Publication History 1,592citation7,260DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1,592Total Downloads7,260Last 12 Months258Last 6 weeks34 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

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  • IR's foundational work provided explicit accounts of relevance and retrieval models derived from them, giving later researchers clear assumptions to test and extend.

    “Its foundational work provided explicit accounts of relevance and retrieval models derived from them [45, 48, 49, 51], giving later researchers clear assumptions to test and extend.”

    From Agentic Memory Management Is the Next Frontier of Information Retrieval (2026) · cites this paper as [45]

  • Li and Croft 2003 introduced time-based language models as an extension of Ponte and Croft 1998 to favor documents created in recent time.

    “they introduced the notion of time-based language models as an extension of work proposed by [Ponte and Croft 1998] to favor documents created in recent time.”

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Authors
Ponte, J. M., & Croft, W. B.
Affiliations
University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
ORCID
Croft, W. Bruce
Venue
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Publisher
ACM
Published
1998-08
Pages
275-281
DOI
10.1145/290941.291008
OpenAlex
W4206765718
Cited by
1,821
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.26
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Advanced Research Projects Agency
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Theoretical Computer Science › Algorithms and Data Compression
Keywords
language modeling, information retrieval, retrieval models, probabilistic retrieval

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