A survey of pre-retrieval query performance predictors

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1419-1420

  Hauff, Claudia ^a   Hiemstra, Djoerd ^a   De Jong, Franciska ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Query performance prediction

Indexed keywords

COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS; EXTERNAL SOURCES; QUERY PERFORMANCE; QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; QUERY TERMS; RETRIEVAL QUERY; SEARCH SYSTEM; TEST COLLECTION; WORDNET;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70349248327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458311     Document Type: Conference Paper

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