A merging strategy proposal: The 2-step retrieval status value method

Information Retrieval

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-93

  Martínez Santiago, Fernando ^a   Ureña López, L Alfonso ^a   Martín Valdivia, Maite ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

2 step RSV; CLIR; Merging strategies; Mixed 2 step RSV; Pseudo relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544459561     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-005-5722-4     Document Type: Article

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