A unified model for metasearch, pooling, and system evaluation

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 484-491

  Aslam, Javed A ^a   Pavlu, Virgiliu ^a   Savell, Robert ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Active Learning; Evaluation; Metasearch; Pooling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; SEARCH ENGINES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE LEARNING; METASEARCH; ON-LINE LEARNING; POOLING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 17444417637     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956950.956953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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