Effective collection metasearch in a hierarchical environment: Global vs. localized retrieval performance

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 371-372

  Conrad, Jack G ^a   Yang, Changwen ^b   Claussen, Joanne S ^c  

^a Research and Development   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c West Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; METADATA; PROBABILITY; TEXT PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATABASE SELECTION PROBLEM; GLOBAL SEARCH; HIERARCHICALLY STRUCTURED DATA; INVERSE DOCUMENT FREQUENCIES; TEXTUAL DATABASE;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0036989434     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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