On ranking techniques for desktop search

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Cohen, Sara ^a   Domshlak, Carmel ^b   Zwerdling, Naama ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Desktop search; Personal information management; Ranking

Indexed keywords

DESKTOP SEARCH; FORMATS; PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RANKING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 42049093964     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1344411.1344417     Document Type: Article

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