Linear combination of component results in information retrieval

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 114-126

  Wu, Shengli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Information retrieval; Logistic regression; Meta search; Model; Multiple linear regression; The linear combination method

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT RETRIEVAL; COMPONENT SYSTEMS; DATA FUSION METHODS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; METASEARCH; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; RELEVANCE SCORE; WEIGHTING SCHEME;

DATA FUSION; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION FUSION; LINEAR REGRESSION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 80455143824     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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