##  [Language Modeling Approach](/language-modeling-approach) 

  ##  [Language Modeling Approach](https://information.quantumdictionary.io/language-modeling-approach-0) 

  

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Definition

A retrieval approach that represents each document as a probability distribution over terms (a language model) and ranks documents by the likelihood that the model would generate the query, typically P(query | document-model), with smoothing to handle unseen terms.