Automatic combination of multiple ranked retrieval systems

Proceedings of the 17th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1994

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 173-181

  Bartell, Brian T ^a   Cottrell, Garrison W ^b   Belew, Richard K ^b  

^a Encylopædia Britannica Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC COMBINATION; EXPERT COMBINATION; RANKED RETRIEVAL; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 85013063830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-2099-5_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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