Query operators shown beneficial for improving search results

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6966 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 118-129

  Hubert, Gilles ^a   Cabanac, Guillaume ^a   Sallaberry, Christian ^b   Palacio, Damien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Information Retrieval; Query Operators; Search Engine

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVENESS; END-USERS; IR MODELS; IR TESTS; QUERY OPERATORS; SEARCH RESULTS; TEST COLLECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 80053002670     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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