Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ605357
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2000
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Query Expansion Using Heterogeneous Thesauri.
Mandala, Rila; Tokunaga, Takenobu; Tanaka, Hozumi
Information Processing & Management, v36 n3 p361-78 May 2000
Proposes a method to improve the performance of information retrieval systems by expanding queries using heterogeneous thesauri. Experiments show that using heterogeneous thesauri with an appropriate weighting method results in better retrieval performance than using only one type of thesaurus. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Thesauri
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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