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    Search, retrieval & recommendation· 1998

    A Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval

    Jay M. Ponte (first author) · 1998

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    DOI 10.1145/290941.291008OpenAlex W4206765718

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    Why it matters

    Established query likelihood language modeling as a major alternative to vector-space retrieval.

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    First released
    1998 (from OpenAlex)
    Citations
    1,749 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
    Awards
    SIGIR Test of Time
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    0.362 · computed rank 447 · consensus 0.24, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.4 (1990s · retrieval), awards 1, existing lists 0. Method

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