The experiments with the linear combination data fusion method in information retrieval

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

Volumn 4976 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 432-437

  Wu, Shengli ^a   Bi, Yaxin ^a   Zeng, Xiaoqin ^b   Han, Lixin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

POWER FUNCTIONS; TRAINING QUERIES; WEIGHTING SCHEMA;

DATA FUSION;

EID: 43749093452     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78849-2_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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