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Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 21 - 28

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-714-6

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James P. Callan	Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Zhihong Lu	Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
W. Bruce Croft	Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

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BCS-ISRG : BCS-ISRG
CEPIS : Council of European Professional Informatics Societies
AICA : Assoc Italianai de Calcolo Automatico
BCS-IRSG : BCS/Information Retrieval Specialist Group
German Comp Soc : GI - Gesellshaft for Informatik
IPSJ : Information Processing Society of Japan
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
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