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Towards an Alternative Information Retrieval System for Children

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    Jamshid Beheshti, Leanne Bowler, Andrew Large & Valerie Nesset

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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Beheshti, J., Bowler, L., Large, A., Nesset, V. (2005). Towards an Alternative Information Retrieval System for Children. In: Spink, A., Cole, C. (eds) New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4014-8_8

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