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Analyses of multiple evidence combination
1997
SIGIR Forum
It hsa been known that different representations of a query ret rieve different sets of documents. Recent work suggests that significant improvements in retrieval performance can be achieved by combining multiple representations of an information need. However, little effort has been made to understand the reason why combining multiple sources of evidence improves retrieval effectiveness. In this paper we analyze why improvements can be achieved with evidence combination, and investigate how
doi:10.1145/278459.258587
fatcat:gbtvpmp7yvaejp56back2girr4