User preference: A measure of query-term quality

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1566-1580

  Wacholder, Nina ^a   Liu, Lu ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE EFFICIENCY; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SEEKING; QUERY TERMS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33749374414     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20315     Document Type: Article

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