Formalizing semantic spaces for information access

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 263-280

  Fabrikant, Sara Irina ^a   Buttenfield, Barbara P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Semantic information spaces; Spatial metaphors; Spatialization; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL DATA; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 0035384487     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0004-5608.00242     Document Type: Article

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