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Information retrieval as statistical translation
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Article Free Access Share on Information retrieval as statistical translation Authors: Adam Berger School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PAView Profile , John Lafferty School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PAView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrievalAugust 1999 Pages 222–229https://doi.org/10.1145/312624.312681Published:01 August 1999Publication History 393citation2,207DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations393Total Downloads2,207Last 12 Months125Last 6 weeks18 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 SiteeReaderPDF
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- Berger, A., & Lafferty, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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- ACM
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- 1999-08
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- 222-229
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- en
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