Contextual factors affecting the utility of surrogates within exploratory search

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 437-462

  Ruthven, Ian ^a   Baillie, Mark ^a   Azzopardi, Leif ^a   Bierig, Ralf ^a   Nicol, Emma ^a   Sweeney, Simon ^a   Yaciki, Murat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ciqa; Exploratory search; Relevance assessment; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

EXPLORATORY SEARCH; INFORMATION SURROGATES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 39649094519     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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