Generating overview timelines for major events in an RSS corpus

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-144

  Prabowo, Rudy ^a   Thelwall, M ^a   Alexandrov, Mikhail ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clustering; Feature selection; Overview timeline

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247545762     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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