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Measures of relative relevance and ranked half-life: performance indicators for interactive IR

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      SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
      August 1998
      394 pages
      ISBN:1581130155
      DOI:10.1145/290941

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