Reasoning about Textual Similarity in a Web-Based Information Access System

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-86

  Cohen, William W ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Information agent; Information extraction; Information integration; Information retrieval; Ranked retrieval; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033444527     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010031208520     Document Type: Article

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