Estimating probabilities for effective data fusion

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 347-354

  Lillis, David ^a   Zhang, Lusheng ^a   Toolan, Fergus ^a   Collier, Rem W ^a   Leonard, David ^a   Dunnion, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Probabilistic data fusion; Results merging

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; DISTRIBUTION OF RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION METRICS; EVALUATION RESULTS; FUSION PERFORMANCE; HIGH QUALITY; PROBABILISTIC DATA FUSION; PROBABILITY CALCULATIONS; RESULTS MERGING; SEARCH RESULTS; SIMILAR PATTERN; TRAINING DATA;

CURVE FITTING; DATA FUSION; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

MERGING;

EID: 77956035137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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