ProbFuse: A probabilistic approach to data fusion

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 139-146

  Lillis, David ^a   Collier, Rem ^a   Toolan, Fergus ^a   Dunnion, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Information retrieval; ProbFuse

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; PROBFUSE; RETRIEVAL EXPERIMENTS; AD HOC COLLECTION; FUSION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

SENSOR DATA FUSION; DATA FUSION;

EID: 33750366039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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