A framework for corroborating answers from multiple web sources

Information Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 431-449

  Wu, Minji ^a   Marian, Amlie ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corroboration; Mean reciprocal rank; Precision; TREC; Web search

Indexed keywords

CORROBORATION; MEAN RECIPROCAL RANKS; PRECISION; TREC; WEB SEARCH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 78649458766     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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