Condorcet fusion for improved retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 538-548

  Montague, Mark ^a   Aslam, Javed A ^a  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

BORDA FUSE; CONDORCET FUSION; METASEARCH ALGORITHMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0038494759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/584792.584881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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