Towards better measures: Evaluation of estimated resource description quality for distributed IR

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 152, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Baillie, Mark ^a   Azzopardi, Leif ^a   Crestani, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUERY PROCESSING;

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS (DIR); QUERY-BASED SAMPLING WORK; RESOURCE DESCRIPTION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547317082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1146847.1146888     Document Type: Conference Paper

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