Credibility-inspired ranking for blog post retrieval

Information Retrieval

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 243-277

  Weerkamp, Wouter ^a   de Rijke, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blog post retrieval; Credibility; Reranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861455039     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-011-9182-8     Document Type: Article

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