Overview of the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track

22nd Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2013 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Demeester, Thomas ^a   Trieschnigg, Dolf ^b   Nguyen, Dong ^b   Hiemstra, Djoerd ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

DATA COLLECTION; FEDERATED WEB SEARCH; LARGE DATA; RELEVANCE JUDGEMENT; RESOURCES SELECTIONS; RESULT MERGING; WEB SETTINGS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 85180794908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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