How one word can make all the difference -using subject metadata for automatic query expansion and reformulation

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1171, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Petras, Vivien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic query expansion; Controlled vocabulary; Entry vocabulary modules; Thesauri

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; METADATA; THESAURI; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

AUTOMATIC QUERY EXPANSION; BILINGUAL RETRIEVAL; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC METADATA; ENTRY VOCABULARY MODULES; QUERY ANALYSIS; QUERY ENHANCEMENT; QUERY WORDS; SUBJECT METADATAS;

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EID: 84922041518     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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