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Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Melbourne, Australia

Pages: 112 - 120

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-015-5

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Jinxi Xu	Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA
Jamie Callan	Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA

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University of Melbourne : University of Melbourne
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Management, Measurement, Performance, Theory

Collaborative Colleagues:

Jinxi Xu: colleagues

Jamie Callan: colleagues

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