Information retrieval and situation theory

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-25

  Huibers, T W C ^a   Lalmas, M ^b   Van Rijsbergen, C J ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0040818924     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/381984.381986     Document Type: Article

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