The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus

Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 49-64

  Frâncu, Victoria ^a  

^a Carol i Central University Library of Bucharest   (Romania)

Author keywords

Compatibility of information languages; Information languages; Information retrieval; Intermediate languages; Multilingual thesauri; UDC; Universal Decimal Classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905785718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v37n01_05     Document Type: Chapter

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