ExpansionTool: Concept-Based Query Expansion and Construction

Information Retrieval

Volumn 4, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 231-255

  Järvelin, Kalervo ^a   Kekäläinen, Jaana ^a   Niemi, Timo ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Concept based information retrieval; Conceptual models; Deductive data model; Ontology; Query formulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041335502     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011998222190     Document Type: Article

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