Probing a Collection to Discover its Language Model TITLE2:

  • Authors:

  • A. Du;J. Callan

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  • Probing a Collection to Discover its Language Model TITLE2:
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Most solutions to distributed IR rely on access to a language model for each text collection, but it has been unclear how the model can be obtained reliably in real-world distributed environments. This paper proposes a solution based upon probing the collection, and demonstrates its effectiveness on four databases.