We investigate the problem of fusing collections of documents provided by multiple information retrieval systems. A parameterized approach is suggested in which a parameter determines how the documents in the individual collections are interleaved to form a fused list of documents. We then suggest a
Some perspectives on the evaluation of information retrieval systems
โ Scribed by Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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