From "identical" to "similar": Fusing retrieved lists based on inter-document similarities

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

Volumn 5766 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 212-223

  Kozorovitzky, Anna Khudyak ^a   Kurland, Oren ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fusion; Inter document similarities; Similarity based fusion

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT SIMILARITY; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FUSION; GRAPH-BASED METHODS; INTER-DOCUMENT-SIMILARITIES; SIMILARITY-BASED FUSION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350592012     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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