Real life information retrieval: A study of user queries on the web

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-17

  Jansen, Bernard J ^a   Spink, Amanda ^b   Bateman, Judy ^b   Saracevic, Tefko ^c  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001685668     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/281250.281253     Document Type: Article

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