Probability-based fusion of information retrieval result sets

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 179-191

  Lillis, D ^a   Toolan, F ^a   Mur, A ^a   Peng, L ^a   Collier, R ^a   Dunnion, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Information retrieval; ProbFuse

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY;

FUSION TECHNIQUE; PROBFUSE; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 36048930196     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-007-9021-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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