A substantive theory of classification for information retrieval

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 582-597

  Hjørland, Birger ^a   Pedersen, Karsten Nissen ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Classification; Information retrieval; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844479264     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410510625804     Document Type: Article

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