Cluster-based fusion of retrieved lists

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 893-902

  Kozorovitsky, Anna Khudyak ^a   Kurland, Oren ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ad hoc retrieval; Cluster based fusion; Fusion

Indexed keywords

FUSION REACTIONS;

AD HOC RETRIEVAL; CLUSTER-BASED; DOCUMENT SIMILARITY; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FUSION APPROACHES; FUSION METHODS; RE-RANKING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 80052134216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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