Thesaurus construction: Problems and their roots

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 481-493

  Miller, Uri ^a  

^a WINGATE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LINGUISTICS;

THESAURUS CONSTRUCTION THEORY;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

EID: 0031191611     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(97)00009-5     Document Type: Article

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