Quality and relevance of domain-specific search: A case study in mental health

Information Retrieval

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-225

  Tang, Thanh Tin ^a   Craswell, Nick ^b   Hawking, David ^b   Griffiths, Kathy ^c   Christensen, Helen ^c  

^a ANU ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Domain specific search; Focused crawling; Mental health

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645985180     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-006-7150-5     Document Type: Article

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