Human versus machine in the topic distillation task

Proceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 385-392

  Wu, Mingfang ^a   Muresan, Gheorghe ^b   McLean, Alistair ^a   Tang, Muh Chyun ^b   Wilkinson, Ross ^a   Li, Yuelin ^b   Lee, Hyuk Jin ^b   Belkin, Nichloas J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Interactive information retrieval; Search result organization; Topic distillation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; USER INTERFACES;

INTERACTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE TRACK PROTOCOL; SEARCH RESULTS; TOPIC DISTILLATION TASK;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 8644266153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1008992.1009058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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