Blind men and elephants: Six approaches to TREC data

Information Retrieval

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 7-34

  Banks, David ^a   Over, Paul ^a   Zhang, Nien Fan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Multidimensional scaling; Rank correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002500408     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009984519381     Document Type: Article

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