Dynamic extraction of topic descriptors and discriminators: Towards automatic context-based topic search

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 463-472

  Maguitman, Ana ^a   Leake, David ^a   Reichherzer, Thomas ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Topic Search; Concept Mapping; Context; Information Retrieval; Knowledge Acquisition Tools; Knowledge Management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; ONLINE SEARCHING; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTOMATIC TOPIC SEARCH; CONCEPT MAPPING; CONTEXT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION TOOLS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES;

EID: 18744405718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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