Brief communication: When stopword lists make the difference

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 200-203

  Dolamic, Ljiljana ^a   Savoy, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE FROM RANDOMNESS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; PERSIANS;

LINGUISTICS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 72849149278     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21186     Document Type: Article

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