Word association testing and thesaurus construction: A pilot study

Cataloging and Classification Quarterly

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-78

  Spiteri, Louise F ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Thesaurus construction; Word association testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947493448     PISSN: 01639374     EISSN: 15444554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v40n01_05     Document Type: Article

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