Incorporating the results of co-word analyses to increase search variety for information retrieval

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 429-451

  Ding, Ying ^a   Chowdhury, Gobinda G ^a   Foo, Schubert ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SOCIAL SCIENCES; THESAURI;

CO-WORD ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0034503918     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016555150002600606     Document Type: Article

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