A comparison of techniques for selecting text collections

Proceedings - 11th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 28-32

  D'Souza, D J ^a   Thom, J A ^a   Zobel, J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

RANKING TECHNIQUE; SELECTION INDEXES; TEXT COLLECTION; TEXT DOCUMENT;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 84962800140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ADC.2000.819810     Document Type: Conference Paper

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