Bi-gram Language Modeling

by Gaurav Arora for Xapian Search Engine Library

Bi-gram Language modeling approach to information retrieval have proved to outperform the three traditional IR approaches . Bi-gram Language model apart from better retrieval performance renders a rich resource Bi-gram from collection which can be used for phrase searching, Diversifying search results, and query reformulation suggestion to user. Bi-gram Language model would make Xapian a more powerful library for research in information retrieval.