Impact of incomplete correspondence between document titles and texts on users' representations: A cognitive and linguistic analysis based on 25 technical documents

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-246

  Eyrolle, Hélène ^a   Virbel, Jacques ^b   Lemarié, Julie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IRIT   (France)

Author keywords

Information selection; Linguistics; Technical documents; Titles

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; TEXT PROCESSING;

COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY; INFORMATION SELECTION; TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS;

LINGUISTICS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; WRITING;

EID: 36849092389     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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