Searching for images: The analysis of users' queries for image retrieval in American history

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 498-511

  Choi, Youngok ^a   Rasmussen, Edie M ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); ONLINE SEARCHING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

VISUAL INFORMATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037391060     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10237     Document Type: Article

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