Overview of the reliable information access workshop

Information Retrieval

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 615-641

  Harman, Donna ^a   Buckley, Chris ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Sabir Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure analysis; Information retrieval; Relevance feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888233812     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-009-9101-4     Document Type: Article

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