Predicting query performance directly from score distributions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7097 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 315-326

  Cummins, Ronan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; MIXTURE MODEL; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; QUERY PERFORMANCE; QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; STANDARD PERFORMANCE; TWO PARAMETER;

FORECASTING; INFRARED DEVICES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84255194255     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25631-8_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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