Subject knowledge improves interactive query expansion assisted by a thesaurus

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 673-690

  Sihvonen, Anne ^a   Vakkari, Pertti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Controlled languages; Information retrieval; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644255159     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410410568151     Document Type: Article

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