... example on question retrievalmost information retrieval models, such as vector space model (VSM) (Salton et al., 1975), Okapi model (Robertson et al., 1994), language model (LM) (Ponte and Croft, 1998), ... µ1= 1, the retrieval model is basedon phrase-based translation model for the questionpart. When µ2= 1, the retrieval model is based onphrase-based translation model for the answer part.3.3 ... translation model for question retrieval. Compared to the traditionalword-based translation models, the phrase-based translation model is more effective be-cause it captures contextual information...