Shadow Document Methods of Results Merging
Wu, S. and Crestani, F. (2004) Shadow Document Methods of Results Merging. In: Proceedings of ACM SAC 2004, 2004-03-14 - 2004-03-17. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/967900.968117)
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In distributed information retrieval systems, document overlaps occur frequently across results from different databases. This is especially the case for meta-search engines which merge results from several general-purpose web search engines. This paper addresses the problem of merging results which contain overlaps in order to achieve better performance. Several algorithms for merging results are proposed, which take advantage of the use of duplicate documents in two ways: one correlates scores from different results; the other regards duplicates as increasing evidence of being relevant to the given query. A variety of experiments have demonstrated that these methods are effective.
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Item type: Conference or Workshop Item(Paper) ID code: 2494 Dates: DateEvent17 March 2004PublishedKeywords: merging results, algorithms, meta-search engines, information retrieval, Electronic computers. Computer science Subjects: Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science Department: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Strathprints Administrator Date deposited: 06 Feb 2007 Last modified: 04 Jan 2024 15:23 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/2494