Composition of TF normalizations: New insights on scoring functions for Ad Hoc IR

SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 917-920

  Rousseau, François ^a   Vazirgiannis, Michalis ^a,b,c  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUT MINES TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Function composition; Heuristic retrieval constraints; Ir theory; Scoring functions; TF normalizations

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC RETRIEVAL CONSTRAINTS; LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; MATHEMATICAL JUSTIFICATION; SCORING FUNCTIONS; TERM FREQUENCY; TF NORMALIZATIONS; WEIGHTING MODEL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84883123853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484028.2484121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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