User-centered evaluation of a discovery layer system with Google scholar

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

Volumn 8015 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2013, Pages 313-322

  Zhang, Tao ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discovery layer; Google Scholar; relevance; search results; user centered evaluation

Indexed keywords

DISCOVERY LAYER; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; RELEVANCE; SEARCH RESULTS; USER-CENTERED;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84880735909     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39253-5_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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