Reformulation of queries using similarity thesauri

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1163-1173

  Zazo, Ángel F ^a   Figuerola, Carlos G ^a   Berrocal, José L Alonso ^a   Rodriíguez, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Query expansion; Similarity thesaurus; Term weighting

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; THESAURI; WORD PROCESSING;

DOCUMENT COLLECTION; QUERY EXPANSION; SIMILARITY THESAURI; TERM WEIGHTING;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 16344378293     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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