The SST method: A tool for analysing Web information search processes

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 633-654

  Pharo, Nils ^a   Järvelin, Kalervo ^b  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Information searching; Information seeking; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION SEARCHING; INFORMATION SEEKING; SEARCH SITUATION TRANSITION (SST); WEB INFORMATION SEARCH (WIS) PROCESSES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 2942612506     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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