Customized Information Extraction as a Basis for Resource Discovery

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-199

  Hardy, Darren R ^a,b   Schwartz, Michael F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Netscape Communications Corp   (United States)

^c Home Network   (United States)

Author keywords

D.2 Software : Software Engineering; E.5 Data : Files organization structure; H.3 Information Systems : Information Storage and Retrieval; H.4 Information Systems : Information Systems Applications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FILE ORGANIZATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; USER INTERFACES;

DISTRIBUTED INDEXING; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INTERNET; RESOURCE DISCOVERY SYSTEM;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030141988     PISSN: 07342071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/227695.227697     Document Type: Article

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