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Searching Distributed Collections With Inference Networks
Abstract
The use of information retrieval systems in networked environments raises a new set of issues that have received little attention. These issues include ranking document collections for relevance to a query, selecting the best set of collections from a ranked list, and merging the document rankings that are returned from a set of collections. This paper describes methods of addressing each issue in the inference network model, discusses their implementation in the INQUERY system, and presents experimental results demonstrating their effectiveness.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Callan, J. P., Lu, Z., & Croft, W. B.
- Venue
- ACM SIGIR Forum
- Published
- 2017-08-02
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 160-167
- ISSN
- 0163-5840 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2086253379
- Cited by
- 608
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 11.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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