Standard deviation as a query hardness estimator

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

Volumn 6393 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 207-212

  Pérez Iglesias, Joaquín ^a   Araujo, Lourdes ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISPERSION DEGREE; QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; RANKING LISTS;

STATISTICS; TOWERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STATISTICS;

EID: 78449305148     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16321-0_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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