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Effective retrieval with distributed collections

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SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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August 1998

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DOI:10.1145/290941

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W. Bruce Croft
Univ. of Massachusetts
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Univ. of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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C. J. van Rijsbergen
Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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RMIT Univ., Australia and CSIRO
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