Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Optimizing ranking functions: a connectionist approach to adaptive information retrieval
Optimizing ranking functions: a connectionist approach to adaptive information retrieval
Method combination for document filtering
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Analyses of multiple evidence combination
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
SENTINEL: a multiple engine information retrieval and visualization system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Modeling score distributions for combining the outputs of search engines
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Fusion Via a Linear Combination of Scores
Information Retrieval
Towards comprehensive web search
Towards comprehensive web search
Adaptive combination of evidence for information retrieval
Adaptive combination of evidence for information retrieval
Improving retrieval feedback with multiple term-ranking function combination
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Data fusion with estimated weights
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Comparison of Normalization Techniques for Metasearch
ADVIS '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Information Systems
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Fusion of effective retrieval strategies in the same information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Performance prediction of data fusion for information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
ProbFuse: a probabilistic approach to data fusion
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Probabilistic latent query analysis for combining multiple retrieval sources
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using historical data to enhance rank aggregation
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving high accuracy retrieval by eliminating the uneven correlation effect in data fusion
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Structured retrieval for question answering
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Performance prediction using spatial autocorrelation
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A formal approach to score normalization for meta-search
HLT '02 Proceedings of the second international conference on Human Language Technology Research
Probability-based fusion of information retrieval result sets
Artificial Intelligence Review
Probabilistic data fusion on a large document collection
Artificial Intelligence Review
Voting techniques for expert search
Knowledge and Information Systems
Image Retrieval: Color and Texture Combining Based on Query-Image
ICISP '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Image and Signal Processing
Ranked feature fusion models for ad hoc retrieval
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
To swing or not to swing: learning when (not) to advertise
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Estimating retrieval effectiveness using rank distributions
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Combining image descriptors to effectively retrieve events from visual lifelogs
MIR '08 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international conference on Multimedia information retrieval
Applying statistical principles to data fusion in information retrieval
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Assigning appropriate weights for the linear combination data fusion method in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Effective query expansion for federated search
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
RRPS: A Ranked Real-Time Publish/Subscribe Using Adaptive QoS
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
IMCE '09 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Interactive multimedia for consumer electronics
Enhancing Web Search by Aggregating Results of Related Web Queries
WISE '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Score normalization in multimodal biometric systems
Pattern Recognition
Estimating probabilities for effective data fusion
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Retrieval result presentation and evaluation
KSEM'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge science, engineering and management
Multimodal segmentation of lifelog data
Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video, and Sound)
Linking online news and social media
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
The linear combination data fusion method in information retrieval
DEXA'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Database and expert systems applications - Volume Part II
Applying the data fusion technique to blog opinion retrieval
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Linear combination of component results in information retrieval
Data & Knowledge Engineering
A Survey of Automatic Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Using the euclidean distance for retrieval evaluation
BNCOD'11 Proceedings of the 28th British national conference on Advances in databases
Evaluating score normalization methods in data fusion
AIRS'06 Proceedings of the Third Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
INEX'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval
Extraction of the contents in the web texts by content-density distribution
International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms
A relevant score normalization method using shannon's information measure
ICADL'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: implementing strategies and sharing experiences
Probabilistic score normalization for rank aggregation
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Extraction of web texts using content-density distribution
AIRS'11 Proceedings of the 7th Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
Score transformation in linear combination for multi-criteria relevance ranking
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Unsupervised linear score normalization revisited
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Aggregation Methods for Proximity-Based Opinion Retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Copulas for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Efficient community detection in large networks using content and links
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Merging algorithms for enterprise search
Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
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Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes the performance of the combination. This problem can be naturally decomposed into three subproblems: (1) normalizing the relevance scores given by the input systems, (2) estimating relevance scores for unretrieved documents, and (3) combining the newly-acquired scores for each document into one, improved score.Research on the problem of metasearch has historically concentrated on algorithms for combining (normalized) scores. In this paper, we show that the techniques used for normalizing relevance scores and estimating the relevance scores of unretrieved documents can have a significant effect on the overall performance of metasearch. We propose two new normalization/estimation techniques and demonstrate empirically that the performance of well known metasearch algorithms can be significantly improved through their use.