Examining and improving the effectiveness of relevance feedback for retrieval of scanned text documents

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 633-649

  Lam Adesina, Adenike M ^a   Jones, Gareth J F ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Document image retrieval; Image retrieval; Query expansion; Relevance feedback; Scanned text

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

DOCUMENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL; QUERY EXPANSION; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; SCANNED TEXT;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 27644581887     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2005.06.006     Document Type: Article

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