Merging techniques for performing data fusion on the Web

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 127-134

  Tsikrika, Theodora ^a   Lalmas, Mounia ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer's theory of evidence; Information retrieval; Web data fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

WEB DATA FUSION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0035750983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/502585.502608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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