Language Models Hongning Wang CS@UVa. Two-stage smoothing [Zhai & Lafferty 02] c(w,d) |d| P(w|d) = + p(w|C) ++ Stage-1 -Explain unseen words -Dirichlet.
Language Models
Implicit User Feedback Hongning Wang CS@UVa. Explicit relevance feedback 2 Updated query Feedback Judgments: d 1 + d 2 - d 3 + … d k -... Query User judgment.