@inproceedings{ea3ba62644ca48fcb51d739ad391a163,
title = "Mean-field approach to a probabilistic model in information retrieval",
abstract = "We study an explicit parametric model of documents, queries, and relevancy assessment for Information Retrieval (IR). Mean-field methods are applied to analyze the model and derive efficient practical algorithms to estimate the parameters in the problem. The hyperparameters are estimated by a fast approximate leave-one-out cross-validation procedure based on the cavity method. The algorithm is further evaluated on several benchmark databases by comparing with standard algorithms in IR.",
author = "Bin Wu and Wong, {K. Y.Michael} and David Bodoff",
year = "2003",
language = "English",
isbn = "0262025507",
series = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems",
publisher = "Neural information processing systems foundation",
booktitle = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15 - Proceedings of the 2002 Conference, NIPS 2002",
note = "16th Annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 2002 ; Conference date: 09-12-2002 Through 14-12-2002",
}