Query transformations and their role in Web searching by the general public

Information Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Whittle, Martin ^a   Eaglestone, Barry ^a   Ford, Nigel ^a   Gillet, Valerie J ^a   Madden, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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