A concept space approach to addressing the vocabulary problem in scientific information retrieval: An experiment on the worm community system

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-31

  Chen, Hsinchun ^a   Ng, Tobun D ^a   Martinez, Joanne ^b   Schatz, Bruce R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CONCEPT SPACE METHOD; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY DOMAIN; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORM COMMUNITY SYSTEM;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0030783429     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199701)48:1<17::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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