Navigating the user query space

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

Volumn 7024 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 380-385

  Cummins, Ronan ^a   Lalmas, Mounia ^b   O'Riordan, Colm ^c   Jose, Joemon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUERY PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; USER QUERY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 80053989609     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24583-1_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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