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Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval archive
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Melbourne, Australia

Pages: 190 - 196

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-015-5

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Christopher C. Vogt	Computer Science and Engineering 0114, University of California, San Diego
Garrison W. Cottrell	Computer Science and Engineering 0114, University of California, San Diego

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University of Melbourne : University of Melbourne
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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