Improving rankings in small-scale web search using click-implied descriptions

Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium, ACDS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hawking, David ^a   Rowlands, Tom ^a   Adcock, Matt ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Content analysis and indexing Indexing methods ; Information storage and retrieval

Indexed keywords

INDEXING METHODS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEAN RECIPROCAL RANKS; MEASURE OF PERFORMANCE; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SEARCH SERVICES; WEB SEARCHES;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84869046700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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