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The effect of user characteristics on search effectiveness in information retrieval

✍ Scribed by Azzah Al-Maskari; Mark Sanderson

Book ID
113664022
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
474 KB
Volume
47
Category
Article
ISSN
0306-4573

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