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Fusion of Overlapped Result Sets

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The existence of replicated documents or indexes in dis- tributed information retrieval introduces some level of overlapping be- tween its component databases. In this paper, a new data fusion method taking in account the overlapping information is compared with a conven- tional fusion method. The overall system effectiveness evaluation enables preliminary conclusions about the importance of such parameter for data fusion in distributed information retrieval.

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Macedo, J., Costa, A., Freitas, V. (2000). Fusion of Overlapped Result Sets. In: Borbinha, J., Baker, T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1923. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45268-0_44

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