Threshold setting and performance optimization in adaptive filtering

Information Retrieval

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 239-256

  Robertson, Stephen ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Filtering; Optirnization; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542340376     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015702129514     Document Type: Article

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