Information retrieval with a hybrid automatic query expansion and data fusion procedure

Information Retrieval

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-65

  Xu, Yunjie ^a   Benaroch, Michel ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Multiple queries; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044441289     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:INRT.0000048496.31867.62     Document Type: Article

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