Probabilistic data fusion on a large document collection

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 26, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 23-34

  Lillis, David ^a   Toolan, Fergus ^b   Collier, Rem ^a   Dunnion, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Griffith College   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Information retrieval; ProbFuse

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION ALGORITHM; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; EVALUATION MEASURES; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PROBABILISTIC DATA FUSION; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 77949276821     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-007-9037-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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