Organizing domain-specific information on the Web: An experiment on the Spanish business Web directory

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 51-66

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

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Business intelligence; Internet; Knowledge management; Non English Web browsing; Ontology; Spanish; Web

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; ONTOLOGY; WEB SERVICES;

HEURISTIC FILTERING; NON-ENGLISH WEB BROWSING; WEB DIRECTORY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 36248956657     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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