The use of phrases and structured queries in information retrieval

Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 32-45

  Croft, W Bruce ^a   Turtle, Howard R ^a,b   Lewis, David D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b West Publishing Company ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING;

BOOLEAN QUERIES; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES; PROBABILISTIC RETRIEVAL; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; STATISTICAL RETRIEVAL; STRUCTURED QUERIES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84982440478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/122860.122864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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