Cooperative answering through controlled query relaxation

IEEE Expert-Intelligent Systems and their Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 48-59

  Gaasterland, Terry ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

CONTROLLED QUERY RELAXATION; COOPERATIVE ANSWERING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031232602     PISSN: 08859000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/64.621228     Document Type: Article

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