Finding information at the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Overcoming the barriers of scope, concept, and language mismatch

Terminology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-56

  Haas, Stephanie W ^a   Hert, Carol A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of users; Crosswalks; End user searching; Language for General Purposes (LGP); Language for Special Purposes (LSP); Novice expert vocabulary differences; Statistical information

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038224864     PISSN: 09299971     EISSN: 15699994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/term.8.1.03haa     Document Type: Review

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