Exploration of Web users' search interests through automatic subject categorization of query terms

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 38, Issue , 2001, Pages 372-381

  Pu, Hsiao Tieh ^a   Chuang, Shui Lung ^b   Yang, Chyan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

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