Topic difficulty prediction in entity ranking

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5631 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 280-291

  Vercoustre, Anne Marie ^a   Pehcevski, Jovan ^b   Naumovski, Vladimir ^b  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b Faculty of Management and Information Technologies   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTITY RANKING; OPTIMAL VALUES; RESEARCH FIELDS; TEST COLLECTION; WIKIPEDIA;

XML;

MARKUP LANGUAGES;

EID: 70350498878     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03761-0_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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