A corpus analysis approach for automatic query expansion and its extension to multiple databases

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 250-269

  Gauch, Susan ^a   Wang, Jianying ^a   Rachakonda, Satya Mahesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Query expansion

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EID: 0001558224     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/314516.314519     Document Type: Article

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