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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: 172 - 179

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-714-6

Authors

Ellen M. Voorhees	Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ
Narendra K. Gupta	Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ
Ben Johnson-Laird	Siemens Corp. Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ

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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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ACM New York, NY, USA

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