A semisupervised learning method to merge search engine results

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 457-491

  Si, Luo ^a,b   Callan, Jamie ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Resource ranking; Resource selection; Results merging; Semisupervised learning method; Server selection

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESOURCE RANKING; RESOURCE SELECTION; SERVER SELECTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SERVERS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 2442515614     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/944012.944017     Document Type: Article

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