Federated text retrieval from uncooperative overlapped collections

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 495-502

  Shokouhi, Milad ^a   Zobel, Justin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Federated search; Overlap estimation; Overlapped collections; Resource selection

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; FEDERATED SEARCH; OVERLAP ESTIMATION; OVERLAPPED COLLECTIONS; RESOURCE SELECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 36448983168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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