Combining evidence for Web retrieval using the inference network model: An experimental study

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 5 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 751-772

  Tsikrika, Theodora ^a   Lalmas, Mounia ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiments; Inference network model; Link based evidence; Topic relevance task; Web retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERFERENCE NETWORK MODEL; LINK-BASED EVIDENCE; TOPIC RELEVANCE TASK; WEB RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 3042730165     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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