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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
A joint probabilistic classification model for resource selection
Resource selection is an important task in Federated Search to select a small number of most relevant information sources. Current resource selection algorithms such as GlOSS, COR...
Dzung Hong, Luo Si, Paul Bracke, Michael Witt, Tim...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Topic-Based Measure of Resource Description Quality for Distributed Information Retrieval
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
Mark Baillie, Mark James Carman, Fabio Crestani
DASFAA
2004
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
A Meta-search Method with Clustering and Term Correlation
A meta-search engine propagates user queries to its participant search engines following a server selection strategy. To facilitate server selection, the metasearch engine must ke...
Dyce Jing Zhao, Dik Lun Lee, Qiong Luo
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 26 days ago
A signal-to-noise approach to score normalization
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Avi T. Arampatzis, Jaap Kamps
ITCC
2002
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Methodology for Collection Selection in Heterogeneous Contexts
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
Faiza Abbaci, Michel Beigbeder, Jacques Savoy