A joint probabilistic classification model for resource selection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 98-105

  Hong, Dzung ^a   Si, Luo ^a   Bracke, Paul ^b   Witt, Michael ^b   Juchcinski, Tim ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Federated search; Joint classification; Resource selection

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FEDERATED SEARCH; HIGH PROBABILITY; INFORMATION SOURCES; JOINT CLASSIFICATION; JOINT PROBABILISTIC; MODEL ESTIMATES; RESOURCE SELECTION; RESOURCE SELECTION ALGORITHMS; USER QUERY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77956044330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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