Improving search performance: A lesson learned from evaluating search engines using Thai queries

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1557-1564

  Tongchim, Shisanu ^a   Sornlertlamvanich, Virach ^a   Isahara, Hitoshi ^b  

^a Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory Pathumtani   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metasearch; Search engine evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; WEB CRAWLER;

METASEARCH; PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITIES; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; SEARCH ENGINE EVALUATIONS; SEARCH PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL TESTING; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; VOTING ALGORITHM;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 64749095696     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.10.1557     Document Type: Article

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