User comprehension and searching with information retrieval thesauri

The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 103-120

  Greenberg, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic processing; Information retrieval; Interactive processing; Thesauri; Thesaurus

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957801808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v37n03_08     Document Type: Chapter

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