Using Kintsch's discourse comprehension theory to model the user's coding of an informative message from an enabling information retrieval system

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1033-1046

  Cole, Charles ^a   Mandelblatt, Bertie ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ONLINE SEARCHING;

KINTSCH'S DISCOURSE COMPREHENSION THEORY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034274077     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4571(2000)9999:9999<::AID-ASI1005>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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