The potential and actual effectiveness of interactive query expansion

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn 31, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 324-332

  Magennis, Mark ^a   Van Rijsbergen, Cornelis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INTERACTIVE QUERY EXPANSION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030651323     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/278459.258603     Document Type: Article

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