An evaluation of how search engines respond to Greek language queries

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Efthimiadis, Efthimis N ^a   Malevris, Nicos ^b   Kousaridas, Apostolos ^b   Lepeniotou, Alexandra ^b   Loutas, Nikos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WEBSITES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 51449100235     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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