Making the most of a web search session

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 90-97

  Stein, Benno ^a   Hagen, Matthias ^a  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maximum query; Query cost optimization; Query cover; Query formulation; Web search session

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM QUERY; QUERY COSTS; QUERY COVER; QUERY FORMULATION; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMIZATION; SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SERVICES;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 78649851359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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