Textual Information Access: Statistical Models

First published 2012 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Textual information access: statistical models/edited by Eric Gaussier, François Yvon.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-1-84821-322-7

 1. Text processing (Computer science)--Statistical methods. 2. Automatic indexing. 3. Discourse analysis--Data processing. I. Gaussier, Eric. II. Yvon, François.

  QA76.9.T48T56 2011

  005.52--dc23

2011041292

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