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The maximum entropy principle in information retrieval
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Proceedings of the 9th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents
Palazzo dei Congressi, Pisa, Italy
Pages: 269 - 274  
Year of Publication: 1986
ISBN:0-89791-187-3
Authors
Paul B. Kantor  Tantalus, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio
Jung Jin Lee  Tantalus, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio
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SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Applications, assumptions and properties of the maximum entropy principle are discussed. The maximum entropy principle integrates prior estimates of relevance with the observed distribution of term combinations. The result may be a reordering of the segments of a database, compared to a naive estimate. Numerical examples obtained by solution of the non-linear equations for the dual variables are presented and discussed. * Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant IST-8318630.


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