Lay persons' and professionals' nutrition-related vocabularies and their matching to a general and a specific thesaurus

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 232-243

  Poikonen, Tuula ^a   Vakkari, Pertti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coverage; FinMeSH; Matching lay persons; Nutrition vocabulary; Ontology; Professionals; Thesaurus

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; ONTOLOGY; THESAURI;

COVERAGE; FINMESH; FINNISH; INFORMATION NEEDS; MATCHING LAY PERSONS; PROFESSIONALS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS;

NUTRITION;

EID: 62449258142     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551508098602     Document Type: Article

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