The effectiveness of query-specific hierarchic clustering in information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 559-582

  Tombros, Anastasios ^a   Villa, Robert ^a   Van Rijsbergen, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effectiveness evaluation; Information retrieval; Query specific hierarchic clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SEARCH ENGINES;

HIERARCHIC CLUSTERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036643014     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(01)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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