A case for shorter queries, and helping users create them

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 220-227

  Kumaran, Giridhar ^a   Allan, James ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; LONG QUERIES; RETRIEVAL MODELS; USER INTERACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 57349164104     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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