Applying statistical principles to data fusion in information retrieval

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2997-3006

  Wu, Shengli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Information retrieval; Statistical principles

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DATA FUSION METHODS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; STATISTICAL PRINCIPLES;

DATA FUSION;

EID: 56349101660     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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