Identifying clusters of user behavior in intranet search engine log files

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2232-2243

  Stenmark, Dick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERNET; INTRANETS; SEARCH ENGINES; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC CLUSTERING; CORPORATE INTRANETS; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; HIGHER PRECISIONS; HOMOGENEOUS GROUPS; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTRANET SEARCHES; KNOWLEDGEABLE USERS; LOG FILES; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; SEARCH BEHAVIORS; SEARCH EXPERIENCES; SPECIFIC SEGMENTS; USER BEHAVIORS; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB USERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57049154128     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20931     Document Type: Article

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