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Volume 40 , Issue 5 (May 1997) table of contents

Pages: 70 - 79

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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Amarnath Gupta	Virage, Inc., San Mateo, CA
Ramesh Jain	Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
Subjects: Retrieval models

General Terms:
Design, Performance

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