System fusion for improving performance in information retrieval systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 639-643

  McCabe, M C ^a   Chowdhury, A ^a   Grossman, D ^a   Frieder, O ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; VECTOR SPACES;

BOOLEAN MODEL; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; QUERY REPRESENTATIONS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETRIEVAL STRATEGIES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 77956032707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITCC.2001.918869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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