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Volume 9 , Issue 3 (July 1991) table of contents
Special issue on research and development in information retrieval

Pages: 249 - 280

Year of Publication: 1991

ISSN:1046-8188

Authors

Susan Gauch	Univ. of North Carolina
John B. Smith	Univ. of North Carolina

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Susan Gauch , Jianying Wang, A corpus analysis approach for automatic query expansion, Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Information and knowledge management, p.278-284, November 10-14, 1997, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
	Allen Ginsberg, A Unified Approach to Automatic Indexing and Information Retrieval, IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, v.8 n.5, p.46-56, October 1993
	Susan Gauch , Jianying Wang , Satya Mahesh Rachakonda, A corpus analysis approach for automatic query expansion and its extension to multiple databases, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), v.17 n.3, p.250-269, July 1999
	W. Bruce Croft, Knowledge-Based and Statistical Approaches to Text Retrieval, IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications, v.8 n.2, p.8-12, April 1993
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	Rocío L. Cecchini , Carlos M. Lorenzetti , Ana G. Maguitman , Nélida Beatríz Brignole, Using genetic algorithms to evolve a population of topical queries, Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, v.44 n.6, p.1863-1878, November, 2008
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	Dennis F. Galletta , Raymond M. Henry , Scott McCoy , Peter Polak, When the Wait Isnt So Bad: The Interacting Effects of Website Delay, Familiarity, and Breadth, Information Systems Research, v.17 n.1, p.20-37, March 2006

INDEX TERMS

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

General Terms:
Human Factors, Performance

Keywords:
Expert Systems, full-text information retrieval, online search assistance, query reformulation, textbases

REVIEWS

"Robert G Crawford : Reviewer"

A prototype expert system for online search assistance for users of retrieval systems is described and test results using the system are presented. The two principal features of the expert system are automatic query reformulation to improve se more...

"Stephen Charles Smithson : Reviewer"

The authors describe an expert system to assist online searching through automatic query reformulation. They provide a good description of the system architecture and its components. The expert system sits between, and controls, a search and r more...

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Susan Gauch: colleagues

John B. Smith: colleagues

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