It pays to be picky: An evaluation of thread retrieval in online forums

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 714-715

  Elsas, Jonathan L ^a   Carbonell, Jaime G ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Message boards; Online forums; Thread search

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MESSAGE BOARDS; ONLINE FORUMS; SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 72449212297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1572092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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