Improving search results quality by customizing summary lengths

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 701-709

  Kaisser, Michael ^a   Hearst, Marti A ^b   Lowe, John B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; SEARCH RESULTS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859911247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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