The World-Wide Web: Quagmire or Gold Mine?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 65-68

  Etzioni, Oren ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); ONLINE SEARCHING; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC TEXT CATEGORIZATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030288690     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/240455.240473     Document Type: Article

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