User-oriented evaluation methods for interactive Web search interfaces

Proceedings - 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 239-243

  Hoeber, Orland ^a   Yang, Xue Dong ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; TECHNOLOGY;

EVALUATION METHODS; INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; USER-ORIENTED; WEB INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEB INTELLIGENCE; WEB SEARCH INTERFACES; WEB SEARCHES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 48149096061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIIATW.2007.4427580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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