Interactive query expansion: A user-based evaluation in a relevance feedback environment

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 989-1003

  Efthimiadis, Efthimis N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERACTIVE QUERY EXPANSION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0034273391     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999<::AID-ASI1002>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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