What makes a query difficult?

David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Adam Darlow, Dan Pelleg. What makes a query difficult?. In Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, Susan T. Dumais, David Hawking, Kalervo Järvelin, editors, SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006. pages 390-397, ACM, 2006. [doi]

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  title = {What makes a query difficult?},
  author = {David Carmel and Elad Yom-Tov and Adam Darlow and Dan Pelleg},
  year = {2006},
  doi = {10.1145/1148170.1148238},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1148170.1148238},
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  pages = {390-397},
  booktitle = {SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 6-11, 2006},
  editor = {Efthimis N. Efthimiadis and Susan T. Dumais and David Hawking and Kalervo Järvelin},
  publisher = {ACM},
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