Effects of foreign language and task scenario on relevance assessment

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 623-639

  Hansen, Preben ^a   Karlgren, Jussi ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Languages; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844461825     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410510625831     Document Type: Article

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