Using topic shifts for focussed access to XML repositories

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

Volumn 4425 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 444-455

  Ashoori, Elham ^a   Lalmas, Mounia ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES; XML;

INEX; TOPIC SHIFTS; USER QUERY; XML REPOSITORIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 35549005740     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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