A novel English/Chinese information retrieval approach in hotel website searching

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 777-787

  Li, Kar Wing ^a   Law, Rob ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cross lingual information retrieval; e Business; Longest common subsequence

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 38949187428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.05.017     Document Type: Article

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