Effects of topic familiarity and search skills on query reformulation behavior

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hu, Rong ^a   Lu, Kun ^b   Joo, Soohyung ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Factors; Query reformulation; Search skills; Topic familiarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903977732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14505001062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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