Evaluation of an Inference Network-Based Retrieval Model

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 187-222

  Turtle, Howard ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

document retrieval; inference networks; network retrieval models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976772064     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/125187.125188     Document Type: Article

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