Data mining of search engine logs

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2382-2400

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY PROCESSING;

GRAPHICAL NETWORKS; QUERY TRANSFORMATION; TRANSFORMATION CODES; WEB LOGS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33847142632     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20733     Document Type: Article

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