The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus

The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus

The article describes the research done over a bibliographic database in order to show the impact the specificity of the knowledge organising tools may have on information retrieval. For this purpose two multilingual UDC-based thesauri having different degrees of specificity are considered. Issues o...

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Main Author: Francu, Victoria
Language:en
Published: 2003
Subjects:
Classification
Indexing
Information Retrieval
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105725
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spelling ndltd-arizona.edu-oai-arizona.openrepository.com-10150-1057252015-10-23T04:23:37Z The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus Francu, Victoria Classification Indexing Information Retrieval The article describes the research done over a bibliographic database in order to show the impact the specificity of the knowledge organising tools may have on information retrieval. For this purpose two multilingual UDC-based thesauri having different degrees of specificity are considered. Issues of harmonising a classificatory structure with a thesaurus structure are introduced and significant aspects of information retrieval in a multilingual environment are argued in an extensive manner. Aspects of complementarity are discussed with particular emphasis on the real impact produced by alternative search facilities on IR. Finally a number of conclusions are formulated as they arise from the study. 2003 Journal Article (Paginated) The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus 2003, 37(1-2):49-64 Cataloging & Classification Quarterly http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105725 Cataloging & Classification Quarterly en
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Indexing
Information Retrieval
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Indexing
Information Retrieval
Francu, Victoria
The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus
description The article describes the research done over a bibliographic database in order to show the impact the specificity of the knowledge organising tools may have on information retrieval. For this purpose two multilingual UDC-based thesauri having different degrees of specificity are considered. Issues of harmonising a classificatory structure with a thesaurus structure are introduced and significant aspects of information retrieval in a multilingual environment are argued in an extensive manner. Aspects of complementarity are discussed with particular emphasis on the real impact produced by alternative search facilities on IR. Finally a number of conclusions are formulated as they arise from the study.
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title The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus
title_short The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus
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title_fullStr The impact of specificity on the retrieval power of a UDC-based multilingual thesaurus
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