Similarity measures for tracking information flow

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 517-524

  Metzler, Donald ^a   Bernstein, Yaniv ^b   Croft, W Bruce ^a   Moffat, Alistair ^c   Zobel, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information flow; Statistical translation; Text reuse

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FLOW; INFORMATION FLOW ANALYSIS TOOL; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION; TEXT REUSE;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TEXT PROCESSING;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745797351     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099554.1099695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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