Overview of the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6)

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-35

  Voorhees, Ellen M ^a   Harman, Donna ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

TEXT RETRIEVALS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0033639509     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(99)00043-6     Document Type: Short Survey

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