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Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval archive
Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pages: 74 - 82

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-714-6

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Kathleen McKeown	Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dragomir R. Radev	Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY

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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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