A Belief Model of Query Difficulty That Uses Subjective Logic

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A Belief Model of Query Difficulty That Uses Subjective Logic. / Lioma, Christina; Blanco, Roi; Mochales-Palau, Raquel; Moens, Marie-Francine.

ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Springer, 2009. p. 92-103.

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Lioma, C, Blanco, R, Mochales-Palau, R & Moens, M-F 2009, A Belief Model of Query Difficulty That Uses Subjective Logic. in ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Springer, pp. 92-103. <http://64.238.147.53/citation.cfm?id=1612333.1612346&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=87655016&CFTOKEN=30826131>

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Lioma, C., Blanco, R., Mochales-Palau, R., & Moens, M-F. (2009). A Belief Model of Query Difficulty That Uses Subjective Logic. In ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory (pp. 92-103). Springer. http://64.238.147.53/citation.cfm?id=1612333.1612346&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=87655016&CFTOKEN=30826131

Vancouver

Lioma C, Blanco R, Mochales-Palau R, Moens M-F. A Belief Model of Query Difficulty That Uses Subjective Logic. In ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Springer. 2009. p. 92-103

Author

Lioma, Christina ; Blanco, Roi ; Mochales-Palau, Raquel ; Moens, Marie-Francine. / A Belief Model of Query Difficulty That Uses Subjective Logic. ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory. Springer, 2009. pp. 92-103

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