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Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval archive
Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Dublin, Ireland

Pages: 51 - 60

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-387-19889-X

Authors

David Ellis	Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Jonathan Furner-Hines	Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Peter Willett	Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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AICA : Assoc Italianai de Calcolo Automatico
BCS-IRSG : BCS/Information Retrieval Specialist Group
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Dublin City University : Dublin City University
Irish Comp Soc : Irish Computer Society
BCS-IRSB : BCS-IRSB

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Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing
Subjects: Indexing methods

Additional Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
Subjects: Search process; Retrieval models

I. Computing Methodologies
I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
I.7.2 Document Preparation
Subjects: Hypertext/hypermedia

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Experimentation, Human Factors, Languages, Measurement, Verification

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