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Variations in relevance judgments and the measurement of retrieval effectiveness
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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: 315 - 323  
Year of Publication: 1998
ISBN:1-58113-015-5
Author
Ellen M. Voorhees  National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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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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