Combining passage-level and document-level evidence in information retrieval

• Main Author: Xu, Richard Rong.
• Other Authors: School of Applied Science
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42542
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Large collections of full-text documents are now commonly used in automated information retrieval. When the stored documents are long, the retrieval of complete documents may not be in the user's best interest. In this case, efficient and effective retrieval results may be obtained by retrievin...