Query hardness estimation using Jensen-Shannon divergence among multiple scoring functions

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

Volumn 4425 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 198-209

  Aslam, Javed A ^a   Pavlu, Virgil ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

JENSEN-SHANNON DIVERGENCE; MULTIPLE SCORING FUNCTIONS; QUERY HARDNESS ESTIMATION; RETRIEVAL ENGINES;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 37149029772     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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