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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: 289 - 297

Year of Publication: 1996

ISBN:0-89791-792-8

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Leah S. Larkey	Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
W. Bruce Croft	Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

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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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