On collection size and retrieval effectiveness

Information Retrieval

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-105

  Hawking, David ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collection sampling; Relevance score distributions; Signal detection theory; Text retrieval models

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442569756     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022904715765     Document Type: Article

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