Toward a semantic granularity model for domain-specific information retrieval

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Yan, Xin ^a   Lau, Raymond Y K ^b   Song, Dawei ^c   Li, Xue ^a   Ma, Jian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Document ranking; Domain ontology; Domain specific search; Granular computing; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK EXPERIMENTS; BIO-MEDICAL; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONCEPT-BASED; DOCUMENT RANKING; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC INFORMATION; IMPLICIT RANKING; INFORMATION ITEMS; IR MODELS; SEARCH TASKS; THREE DIMENSIONS; USER ORIENTED;

GRANULAR COMPUTING; ONTOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 80051488571     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1993036.1993039     Document Type: Article

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