Automated semantic elaboration of web site information architecture

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 535-544

  Katsanos, Christos ^a   Tselios, Nikolaos ^a   Avouris, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automated tool; Card sorting; Cluster analysis; Information architecture; Latent semantic analysis; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER COMPUTING; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEMANTIC WEB; USER EXPERIENCE; WEB DESIGN; WEBSITES;

AUTOMATED TOOLS; CARD-SORTING; INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 56549125291     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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