Simple semantics in Topic Detection and Tracking

Information Retrieval

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 347-368

  Makkonen, Juha ^a   Ahonen Myka, Helena ^a   Salmenkivi, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Geographical ontology; Information extraction; Retrieval model; Temporal expression; Topic detection and tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843096047     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:inrt.0000011210.12953.86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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