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A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval
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- Authors
- Zhai, C., & Lafferty, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2001-09
- Pages
- 334-342
- OpenAlex
- W4240913316
- Cited by
- 889
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 15.28
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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