Evaluation of search results: A new approach

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-142

  Voiskunskii, Vladimir G ^a  

^a National Library of Russia   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; VECTORS;

SINGLE VALUED MEASURES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031075373     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199702)48:2<133::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Review

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