Evaluating Database Selection Techniques: A Testbed and Experiment

SIGIR 1998 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 121-129

  French, James C ^a   Powell, Allison L ^a   Vilest, Charles L ^a   Emmitt, Travis ^a   Prey, Kevin J ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DISTRIBUTION OF RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; RELEVANCE JUDGEMENT; SELECTION TECHNIQUES; SUBCOLLECTIONS;

TESTBEDS;

EID: 85165106003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/290941.290976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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