Updating collection representations for federated search

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 511-518

  Shokouhi, Milad ^a   Baillie, Mark ^b   Azzopardi, Leif ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collection selection; Distributed information retrieval; Federated search

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

COLLECTION SELECTION; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; FEDERATED SEARCH; ONLINE DISTRIBUTED COLLECTIONS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 36448948226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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