Extracting inter-firm networks from the World Wide Web using a general-purpose search engine

Online Information Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 196-210

  Jin, Yingzi ^a   Ishizuka, Mitsuru ^a   Matsuo, Yutaka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Social networks; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TEXT PROCESSING;

INTER-FIRM NETWORKS; REAL COMMUNITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 42549154224     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520810879827     Document Type: Article

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