Combining evidence for relevance criteria: A framework and experiments in Web retrieval

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4425 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 481-493

  Tsikrika, Theodora ^a   Lalmas, Mounia ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best entry point; Dempster shafer theory; Topic distillation

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BEST ENTRY POINT; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; TOPIC DISTILLATION; WEB RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 37149022050     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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