Information filtering in TREC-9 and TDT-3: A comparative analysis

Information Retrieval

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 159-187

  Ault, Thomas Galen ^a   Yang, Yiming ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Information filtering; TDT; Topic tracking; TREC

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244353504     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015745911767     Document Type: Review

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