An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 480-487

  Fang, Hui ^a   Zhai, Chengxiang ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

asxiomatic model; constraints; formal models; retrieval heuristics; TF IDF weighting

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINTS; EMPIRICAL PERFORMANCE; FORMAL MODEL; INDUCTIVE DEFINITIONS; RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORKS; RETRIEVAL HEURISTICS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; TF-IDF WEIGHTING;

OPTIMIZATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84885658479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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