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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1998
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ579998 |
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- 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)