Assessing term effectiveness in the interactive information access process

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1022-1031

  Wacholder, Nina ^a   Liu, Lu ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Index languages; Query term effectiveness

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INDEX LANGUAGES; INFORMATION ACCESS PROCESS; QUERY TERM EFFECTIVENESS; STATISTICAL CRITERIA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 40649085297     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.07.011     Document Type: Article

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