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Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pages: 32 - 45

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-448-1

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W. Bruce Croft	Computer and Information Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Howard R. Turtle	West Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota and Computer and Information Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
David D. Lewis	Center for Information and Language Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and Computer and Information Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

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AICA : Assoc Italianai de Calcolo Automatico
BCS-IRSG : BCS/Information Retrieval Specialist Group
German Comp Soc : GI - Gesellshaft for Informatik
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
INRIA : Institut Natl de Recherche en Info et en Automatique

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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