Information synthesis: A new approach to explore secondary information in scientific literature

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 56-64

  Blake, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Document Summarization; Information Extraction; Information Retrieval; Information Synthesis; Text Mining

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT SUMMERIZATION; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION SYNTHESIS; TEXT MINING;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 23844535039     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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