Evolving local and global weighting schemes in information retrieval

Information Retrieval

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 311-330

  Cummins, Ronan ^a   O'Riordan, Colm ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Genetic Programming; Information Retrieval; Term Weighting Schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744818457     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-006-1682-6     Document Type: Article

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