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“User revealment”—a comparison of initial queries and ensuing question development in online searching and in human reference interactions

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SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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“User revealment”—a comparison of initial queries and ensuing question development in online searching and in human reference interactions
1. Human-centered computing
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2. Information systems
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