Applying the data fusion technique to blog opinion retrieval

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1346-1353

  Wu, Shengli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blog system; Data fusion; Linear combination; Opinion retrieval

Indexed keywords

BLOG SYSTEM; BORDA COUNT; COMPONENT RETRIEVAL; DATA FUSION METHODS; DATA FUSION TECHNIQUE; FUSION METHODS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; OPINION RETRIEVAL;

BLOGS; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 81855164832     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.08.015     Document Type: Article

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