Revisiting the effect of topic set size on retrieval error

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 637-638

  Lin, Wei Hao ^a   Hauptmann, Alexander ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

measurement error; test collections

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750327186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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