Exploiting a controlled vocabulary to improve collection selection and retrieval effectiveness

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 199-206

  French, James C ^a   Powell, Allison L ^a   Gey, Fredric ^a   Perelman, Natalia ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MAPPING; THESAURI; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

COLLECTION SELECTION; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0035755686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/502585.502619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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