Query expansion for the legal domain: A case study from the JUMAS project

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 62 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 107-122

  Sartori, Fabio ^a   Palmonari, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ontological Query Expansion

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; GENERAL METHOD; LEGAL DOMAINS; ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH; ONTOLOGICAL QUERY; QUERY EXPANSION; RESEARCH TOPICS; SEARCH QUERIES; THEORETICAL POINTS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 78649894123     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16496-5_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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