Degree of Agreement in Naming Objects and Concepts for Information Retrieval.

Collantes, Lourdes Y.

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ERIC Number: EJ499775

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Publication Date: 1995

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Degree of Agreement in Naming Objects and Concepts for Information Retrieval.

Collantes, Lourdes Y.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v46 n2 p116-32 Mar 1995

Discussion of users and information retrieval systems highlights a study that investigated the representation of users' knowledge by examining their names for objects and concepts, agreement on names, the Library of Congress Subject Headings representation for similar objects and concepts, and measurement of the similarity between these representations. (LRW)

Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation, Man Machine Systems, Measurement Techniques, Subject Index Terms, Tables (Data), Users (Information)

Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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