A language modeling framework for resource selection and results merging

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 391-397

  Si, Luo ^a   Jin, Rong ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a   Ogilvie, Paul ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Language model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTRANETS; PROBABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES;

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE MODELING; RESOURCE MODELING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037480958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/584792.584856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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