Navigating in the dark: Modeling uncertainty in ad hoc retrieval using multiple relevance models

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

Volumn 5766 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 79-91

  Soskin, Natali ^a   Kurland, Oren ^a   Domshlak, Carmel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ad hoc retrieval; Faithfulness measures; Relevance models

Indexed keywords

AD HOC RETRIEVAL; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FAITHFULNESS MEASURES; INFORMATION NEED; MODELING UNCERTAINTIES; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; RELEVANCE MODELS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; RETRIEVAL PROCESS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; INFORMATION SERVICES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 70350599622     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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