Vocabulary mining for information retrieval: Rough sets and fuzzy sets

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-38

  Srinivasan, Padmini ^a   Ruiz, Miguel E ^a   Kraft, Donald H ^b   Chen, Jianhua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECISION ENGINEERING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

MULTIPLE VOCABULARY VIEWS; ROUGH SETS; VOCABULARY MINING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0035155598     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(00)00014-5     Document Type: Article

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