Thesaurus-assisted search term selection and query expansion: A review of user-centred studies

Knowledge Organization

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-19

  Shiri, Ali Asghar ^a   Revie, Crawford ^a   Chowdhury, Gobinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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