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A language modeling approach to information retrieval

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SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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A language modeling approach to information retrieval
1. Computing methodologies
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SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

August 1998

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Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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RMIT Univ., Australia and CSIRO
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RMIT Univ., Australia

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