Does topic metadata help with Web search?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 613-628

  Hawking, David ^a   Zobel, Justin ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GOVERNMENT JURISDICTION; QUERY LOGS; TEXT SEARCHES; UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL);

METADATA;

EID: 33947375624     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20548     Document Type: Article

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