Inference networks for document retrieval

Proceedings of the 13th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1990

Volumn , Issue , 1989, Pages 1-24

  Turtle, Howard ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN MODEL; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; INFERENCE NETWORK; RETRIEVAL MODELS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84976820543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/96749.98006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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