An enhanced search interface for information discovery from digital libraries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4172 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 87-98

  Koutrika, Georgia ^a   Simitsis, Alkis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

KEYWORD QUERIES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SHORT FACTUAL INFORMATION;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 33750247117     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11863878_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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