A linguistic analysis of question taxonomies

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 715-728

  Pomerantz, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESSES; DIGITAL REFERENCE SERVICES; LIBRARY REFERENCE SERVICES; QUESTION TAXONOMIES;

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATERIALS SCIENCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 19944372781     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20162     Document Type: Article

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