A study of parameter tuning for term frequency normalization

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 10-16

  He, Ben ^a   Ounis, Iadh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Document length; Information retrieval; Parameter tuning; Term frequency normalization

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY HOPPING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; TUNING;

DOCUMENT FREQUENCY; DOCUMENT LENGTH; PARAMETER TUNING; TERM FREQUENCY NORMALIZATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 8644289729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/956863.956867     Document Type: Conference Paper

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