An experimental study of factors important in document ranking

Proceedings of the 9th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 1986

Volumn , Issue , 1986, Pages 186-193

  Harman, Donna ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEARCH ENGINES;

CRITICAL FACTORS; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; DOCUMENT LENGTH; DOCUMENT RANKING; KEYWORD RETRIEVAL; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; TERM IMPORTANCE; TERM WEIGHTING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84989547651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/253168.253206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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