Some simple effective approximations to the 2-Poisson model for probabilistic weighted retrieval

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Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Dublin, Ireland

Pages: 232 - 241

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-387-19889-X

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S. E. Robertson	Centre for Interactive Systems Research, Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK
S. Walker	Centre for Interactive Systems Research, Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK

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AICA : Assoc Italianai de Calcolo Automatico
BCS-IRSG : BCS/Information Retrieval Specialist Group
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Dublin City University : Dublin City University
Irish Comp Soc : Irish Computer Society
BCS-IRSB : BCS-IRSB

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Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
Subjects: Retrieval models

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation, Performance

Collaborative Colleagues:

S. E. Robertson: colleagues

S. Walker: colleagues

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