Effective pre-retrieval query performance prediction using similarity and variability evidence

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

Volumn 4956 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 52-64

  Zhao, Ying ^a   Scholer, Falk ^a   Tsegay, Yohannes ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

QUERY PERFORMANCE; VARIABILITY EVIDENCE;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 41849138271     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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