Shadow document methods of results merging

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1067-1072

  Wu, Shengli ^a   Crestani, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data Fusion; Information Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; SERVERS;

DATA FUSION; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (DIR); MERGING PROBLEMS; TRAINING RELATED QUERIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 2442467013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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