Toward a robust data fusion for document retrieval

2008 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  He, Daqing ^a   Wu, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CombMNZ; Data fusion; Malach; Spoken document retrieval; TREC HARD

Indexed keywords

COMBMNZ; DATA FUSION METHODS; DATA FUSION TECHNIQUE; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; FUSION METHODS; FUSION TECHNIQUES; LOW QUALITIES; MALACH; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; ROBUST DATA FUSION; SIGNAL BOOSTING; SPOKEN DOCUMENT; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; TREC HARD;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 67650394445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NLPKE.2008.4906754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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