An object-based approach to managing domain specific thesauri: Semiautomatic thesaurus construction and query-based browsing

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 363-389

  Choi, Jae Hun ^a   Yang, Jae Dong ^b   Lee, Dong Gill ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^b Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Object oriented system; Query evaluation; Thesaurus

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

QUERY BASED BROWSING;

THESAURI;

EID: 0036704289     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194002000986     Document Type: Article

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