Query expansion and query translation as logical inference

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 335-346

  Nie, Jian Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

LOGICAL INFERENCE; PROBABILITY THEORY; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY TRANSLATION;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0037293299     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10214     Document Type: Article

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