User-defined relevance criteria in web searching

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 685-707

  Savolainen, Reijo ^a   Kari, Jarkko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Information retrieval; User studies; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750704007     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410610714921     Document Type: Article

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