Fusing different information retrieval systems according to query-topics: A study based on correlation in information retrieval systems and TREC topics

Information Retrieval

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 617-648

  Bigot, Anthony ^a   Chrisment, Claude ^a   Dkaki, Taoufiq ^a   Hubert, Gilles ^a   Mothe, Josiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Clustering; Correspondence analysis; Dimensionality reduction techniques; Hierarchical clustering; Information retrieval; Local analysis of results; Meta search; Query clustering; System clustering; System query correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355132185     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-011-9169-5     Document Type: Article

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