A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval

ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty. A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 22(2):179-214, 2004. [doi]

@article{ZhaiL04,
  title = {A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval},
  author = {ChengXiang Zhai and John D. Lafferty},
  year = {2004},
  doi = {10.1145/984321.984322},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/984321.984322},
  tags = {modeling language, information retrieval, language modeling, information models},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/ZhaiL04},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.},
  volume = {22},
  number = {2},
  pages = {179-214},
}