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A new method of weighting query terms for ad-hoc retrieval

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Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Zurich, Switzerland

Pages: 187 - 195

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-792-8

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K. L. Kwok

Computer Science Dept., Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY

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SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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