Sample sizes for query probing in uncooperative distributed information retrieval

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3841 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 63-75

  Shokouhi, Milad ^a   Scholer, Falk ^a   Zobel, Justin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

QUERY PROBING; SAMPLING STRATEGY; STATISTICAL TERM DISTRIBUTIONS; TARGET COLLECTIONS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 33745637498     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11610113_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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