Evaluation of controlled vocabularies by inter-indexer consistency

Information Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Monreal, Concha Soler ^a   Gil Leiva, Isidoro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

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