Experimental methods for information retrieval

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1185-1186

  Metzler, Donald ^a   Kurland, Oren ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

evaluation; experimental methods; information retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866603522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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