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This paper presents the application of the 2-step RSV (retrieval status value) merging algorithm to DIR environments. The reported experiment shows that the proposed algorithm is scalable and stable. In addition, it obtains a precision measure higher than the well known CORI algorithm.
This work has been supported by Spanish Government (MCYT) with grant TIC2003-07158-C04-04.
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Martínez-Santiago, F., Cumbreras, M.A.G., López, L.A.U. (2004). The Merging Problem in Distributed Information Retrieval and the 2-Step RSV Merging Algorithm. In: Vicedo, J.L., Martínez-Barco, P., Muńoz, R., Saiz Noeda, M. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. EsTAL 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30228-5_39
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