The history of information retrieval research

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue SPL CONTENT, 2012, Pages 1444-1451

  Sanderson, Mark ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

History; information retrieval; ranking algorithms

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; HISTORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL RESEARCH; RANKING ALGORITHM; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84861188127     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2189916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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