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SIGIR: scholar vs. scholars' interpretation

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SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Pages 713 - 714

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Published: 19 July 2010 Publication History

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Google Scholar allows researchers to search through a free and extensive source of information on scientific publications. In this paper we show that within the limited context of SIGIR proceedings, the rankings created by Google Scholar are both significantly different and very negatively correlated with those of domain experts.

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SIGIR: scholar vs. scholars' interpretation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence
      1. Cognitive science
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

July 2010

944 pages

ISBN:9781450301534

DOI:10.1145/1835449

General Chairs:
Fabio Crestani
University of Lugano, CH
,
Stéphane Marchand-Maillet
University of Geneva, CH
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Program Chairs:
Hsin-Hsi Chen
National Taiwan University, TW
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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
University of Washington, USA
,
Jacques Savoy
University of Neuchatel, CH

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July 19 - 23, 2010

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SIGIR '10 Paper Acceptance Rate 87 of 520 submissions, 17%;

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