Automatic new topic identification in search engine transaction logs

Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-338

  Ozmutlu, H Cenk ^a   Cavdur, Fatih ^a   Ozmutlu, Seda ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Identification; Information retrieval; Search engines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745449182     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240610673727     Document Type: Article

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