Automated subject classification of textual Web pages, based on a controlled vocabulary: Challenges and recommendations

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-27

  Golub, Koraljka ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEXT PROCESSING; THESAURI;

CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; ENGINEERING INFORMATION; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION;

WEBSITES;

EID: 33746785106     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560600774313     Document Type: Article

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