Evaluating interactive systems in TREC

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-94

  Beaulieu, Micheline ^a   Robertson, Stephen ^a   Rasmussen, Edie ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MODIFICATION; PERFORMANCE;

INTERACTIVE SEARCHING; QUERY FORMULATION; TEXT RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE; USER INTERACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0029776283     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199601)47:1<85::AID-ASI8>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Review

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