Improving two-stage ad-hoc retrieval for short queries

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Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Melbourne, Australia

Pages: 250 - 256

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:1-58113-015-5

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K. L. Kwok	Computer Science Department, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY
M. Chan	Computer Science Department, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY

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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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