Lexical Ambiguity and Information Retrieval

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 115-141

  Krovetz, Robert ^a   Croft, W Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

disambiguation; document retrieval; semantically based search; word senses

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA PROCESSING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY;

DISAMBIGUATION; LEXICAL AMBIGUITY; SEMANTICALLY BASED SEARCH; WORD SENSES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0026843302     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/146802.146810     Document Type: Article

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