Imperfect communication between information requestors and information providers: The effects of syntactic and extraneous ambiguity

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 371-394

  Bowen, Paul L ^a   Rohde, Fiona H ^a   Wu, Chiu Yueh Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Information retrieval; Query developer performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444223952     PISSN: 14670895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accinf.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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