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Main Authors: Knapp, Sara D., Cohen, Laura B., Juedes, D. R.
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1998
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ579998
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author Knapp, Sara D.
Cohen, Laura B.
Juedes, D. R.
author_facet Knapp, Sara D.
Cohen, Laura B.
Juedes, D. R.
Knapp, Sara D.
Cohen, Laura B.
Juedes, D. R.
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contents A Natural Language Thesaurus for the Humanities: The Need for a Database Search Aid. Knapp, Sara D. Cohen, Laura B. Juedes, D. R. Databases Humanities Information Retrieval Needs Assessment Online Searching Relevance (Information Retrieval) Scholarship Social Sciences Thesauri A study to determine the value to humanists of a thesaurus integrating free-text terms from the humanities and social sciences found a high degree of overlap, suggesting that such a thesaurus would be useful to scholars in both disciplines. Results also demonstrated that combining controlled vocabulary and free-text term searching yielded more relevant records than either method alone. (PEN)
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spellingShingle A Natural Language Thesaurus for the Humanities: The Need for a Database Search Aid.
Knapp, Sara D.
Cohen, Laura B.
Juedes, D. R.
Databases
Humanities
Information Retrieval
Needs Assessment
Online Searching
Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Scholarship
Social Sciences
Thesauri
A Natural Language Thesaurus for the Humanities: The Need for a Database Search Aid. Knapp, Sara D. Cohen, Laura B. Juedes, D. R. Databases Humanities Information Retrieval Needs Assessment Online Searching Relevance (Information Retrieval) Scholarship Social Sciences Thesauri A study to determine the value to humanists of a thesaurus integrating free-text terms from the humanities and social sciences found a high degree of overlap, suggesting that such a thesaurus would be useful to scholars in both disciplines. Results also demonstrated that combining controlled vocabulary and free-text term searching yielded more relevant records than either method alone. (PEN)
title A Natural Language Thesaurus for the Humanities: The Need for a Database Search Aid.
topic Databases
Humanities
Information Retrieval
Needs Assessment
Online Searching
Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Scholarship
Social Sciences
Thesauri
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ579998