An effective and efficient results merging strategy for multilingual information retrieval in federated search environments

Information Retrieval

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-24

  Si, Luo ^a   Callan, Jamie ^b   Cetintas, Suleyman ^a   Yuan, Hao ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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EID: 38349115459     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-007-9036-6     Document Type: Article

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