Learning collection fusion strategies

Published 1 January 1995Open access

Ellen M. Voorhees, N. K. Gupta, Ben Johnson-Laird

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This paper explores two collection fusion techniques that learn thernber of documents to retrieve from each collection using only the ranked lists of documents returned in response to past queries and those documents! relevance judgments.

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Article Free Access Share on Learning collection fusion strategies Authors: Ellen M. Voorhees Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJView Profile , Narendra K. Gupta Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJView Profile , Ben Johnson-Laird Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGIR '95: Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrievalJuly 1995Pages 172–179https://doi.org/10.1145/215206.215357Published:01 July 1995Publication History 119citation855DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations119Total Downloads855Last 12 Months46Last 6 weeks8 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Publisher SiteeReaderPDF

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