Adaptive thesaurus employing semantic distance, relational inheritance and nominal compound interpretation for linguistic support of information retrieval

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-131

  Byrne, Christopher C ^a   McCracken, Stephen A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

RELATIONAL INHERITANCE;

THESAURI;

EID: 0033279769     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555159902500203     Document Type: Article

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