Identifying document genre to improve web search effectiveness

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 23-26

  Kwasnik, Barbara H ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^a   Nilan, Michael ^a   Roussinov, Dmitri ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 9744259687     PISSN: 19316550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bult.194     Document Type: Article

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