On relevance weights with little relevance information

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn 31, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 16-24

  Robertson, S E ^a   Walker, S ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE TREC;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030656746     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/278459.258529     Document Type: Article

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