Federated search in the wild: The combined power of over a hundred search engines

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1874-1878

  Nguyen, Dong ^a   Demeester, Thomas ^b   Trieschnigg, Dolf ^a   Hiemstra, Djoerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

dataset; distributed information retrieval; evaluation; federated search; test collection; web search

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; EVALUATION; FEDERATED SEARCH; TEST COLLECTION; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS; WEBSITES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84871035518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2396761.2398535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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