User evaluation of ontology as query construction tool

Information Retrieval

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 455-475

  Suomela, Sari ^a   Kekäläinen, Jaana ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Interactive information retrieval; Ontologies; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746385938     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-006-6387-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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