A study of query length

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 811-812

  Arampatzis, Avi ^a   Kamps, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Power law; Query length; Transaction log analysis; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

POWER-LAW; PRACTICAL MODELS; QUERY LENGTH; QUERY LENGTHS; TRANSACTION LOG ANALYSIS; ZIPF'S LAW;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; POISSON EQUATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 57349161928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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