CLEF 2004: Ad hoc track overview and results analysis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3491, Issue , 2005, Pages 10-26

  Braschler, Martin ^a   Di Nunzio, Giorgio M ^b   Ferro, Nicola ^b   Peters, Carol ^c  

^a Eurospider Information Technology AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AD HOC TRACKS; CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 24944513132     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11519645_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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