Interactive searching and interface issues in the Okapi best match probabilistic retrieval system

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 237-248

  Beaulieu, Micheline ^a   Jones, Susan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Browsing; Interactive information retrieval; Querying; Search interaction; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; USER INTERFACES;

OKAPI SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032099161     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(98)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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