Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 11-18

  Kumaran, Giridhar ^a   Allan, James ^b  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactive retrieval efficiency; Query analysis; Query expansion; Query reduction; User interaction

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INTERACTIVE RETRIEVAL EFFICIENCY; QUERY ANALYSIS; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY REDUCTION; USER INTERACTION;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

EID: 57349158648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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