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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: 206 - 213

Year of Publication: 1999

ISBN:1-58113-096-1

Authors

Mark Sanderson	Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
Bruce Croft	CIIR, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

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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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