Automatic boolean query suggestion for professional search

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 825-834

  Kim, Youngho ^a   Seo, Jangwon ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

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

Author keywords

Boolean query suggestion; Patentability search; Prior art search

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

BOOLEAN QUERIES; LABELED DOCUMENTS; PATENT SEARCH; PATENTABILITY; PRIOR ART SEARCH; QUERY GENERATION; SEARCH TASKS;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS;

EID: 80052118317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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