Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback via Selective Sampling

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-135

  Sakai, Tetsuya ^a   Manabe, Toshihiko ^a   Koyama, Makoto ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experimentation; flexible pseudo relevance feedback; Performance; Pseudo relevance feedback; selective sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750320351     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1105696.1105699     Document Type: Article

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