Routing and Ad-hoc retrieval with the TREC-3 collection in a distributed loosely federated environment
Nikolaus Walczuch, Norbert Fuhr, Michael Pollmann, Birgit Sievers · Text REtrieval Conference · 1994
In this paper, we investigate retrieval methods for loosely coupled IR systems. In such an environment, each IR system operates independently on its own document collection. For query processing, an agent takes the query and sends it to the different IR systems. From the answers received from these servers, it forms a single ranking and sends it back to the user. In the work presented here, we examine different methods for performing routing and had hoc queries in such a environment. For experiments, we use the TREC-3 collection and the SMART retrieval system.