Improving realism of topic tracking evaluation

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 89-96

  Leuski, Anton ^a   Allan, James ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtering; Interactive tracking; Topic detection and tracking

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION FILTERING; INTERACTIVE TRACKING; TOPIC DETECTION; TOPIC TRACKING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036992362     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/564376.564394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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