Using heterogeneous linguistic knowledge in local coherence identification for information retrieval

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 313-328

  Chan, Samuel W K ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

COHERENCE IDENTIFICATION; TEXT SEGMENTATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0033657483     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555150002600504     Document Type: Article

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