Relevance weighting for query independent evidence

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 416-423

  Craswell, Nick ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^a   Zaragoza, Hugo ^a   Taylor, Michael ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

probabilistic IR; ranking; web search

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; DOCUMENT CONTENTS; FEATURE VALUES; RANKING; RELEVANCE SCORE; RELEVANCE WEIGHTS; TRAINING DATA; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

METADATA;

EID: 84885604032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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