Reducing semantic complexity in distributed digital libraries. Treatment of term vagueness and document re-ranking

Library Review

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 213-224

  Mayr, Philipp ^a   Mutschke, Peter ^a   Petras, Vivien ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Information management; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649143847     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242530810865484     Document Type: Article

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