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Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval archive
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Berkeley, California, United States

Pages: 74 - 81

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-096-1

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Jian-Yun Nie	Laboratoire RALI, Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7 Canada
Michel Simard	Laboratoire RALI, Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7 Canada
Pierre Isabelle	Laboratoire RALI, Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7 Canada
Richard Durand	Laboratoire RALI, Département d'Informatique et Recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P.6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7 Canada

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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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