Precision prediction based on ranked list coherence

Information Retrieval

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 723-755

  Cronen Townsend, Steve ^a,b   Zhou, Yun ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences   (United States)

^b Esko Graphics   (United States)

Author keywords

Language models; Performance prediction; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749235691     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-006-9006-4     Document Type: Article

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