Supporting non-English Web searching: An experiment on the Spanish business and the Arabic medical intelligence portals

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1697-1714

  Chung, Wingyan ^a   Bonillas, Alfonso ^b   Lai, Guanpi ^b   Xi, Wei ^b   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Browsing; Business intelligence; Categorization; Internet; Kohonen self organizing map; Medical intelligence; Mutual information; Non English Web searching; Searching; Spanish; Summarization; Visualization; Web; Web portal

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; ONLINE SEARCHING; VISUALIZATION; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CATEGORIZATION; KOHONEN SELF ORGANIZING MAP; MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE; MUTUAL INFORMATION; NON ENGLISH WEB SEARCHING; SUMMARIZATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33750456989     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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