A study of learning a merge model for multilingual information retrieval

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 195-202

  Tsai, Ming Feng ^a   Wang, Yu Ting ^a   Chen, Hsin Hsi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

FRank; Merge model; MLIR

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

CROSSLINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVALS; DATA SETS; FRANK; KEY FACTORS; LEARNING APPROACHES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MERGING PROCESSES; MERGING STRATEGIES; MLIR; MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVALS; RANKING ALGORITHMS; TEST COLLECTIONS; THREE LEVELS;

MERGING;

EID: 57349093806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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