Using coherence-based measures to predict query difficulty

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

Volumn 4956 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 689-694

  He, Jiyin ^a   Larson, Martha ^a   De Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUERY COHERENCE SCORES; QUERY SCORES; TRAINING DATA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; WORD PROCESSING;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 41849105390     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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