Constructing Web search queries from the user's information need expressed in a natural language

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1157-1162

  Shapiro, Jacob ^a   Taksa, Isak ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Long query; Multiple query formulations; Natural language; Search engine

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MULTIPLE QUERY FORMULATIONS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0037634707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/952756.952758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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