Applying the user-over-ranking hypothesis to query formulation

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

Volumn 6931 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 225-237

  Hagen, Matthias ^a   Stein, Benno ^a  

^a BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER-TUNING; PERFORMANCE GAIN; QUERY FORMULATION; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RUNTIMES; WEB SEARCHES;

USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 80053010040     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23318-0_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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