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Accelerated indexing in a domain-specific digital library

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Lois Delcambre,

Susan Price,

Marianne Lykke Nielsen,

Timothy Tolle,

Vibeke Luk,

Mathew WeaverAuthors Info & Claims

dg.o '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Digital government research

Pages 339 - 340

https://doi.org/10.1145/1146598.1146691

Published: 21 May 2006 Publication History

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In this paper we summarize our progress and plans in two related, digital government research projects that focus on information retrieval in a domain-specific, digital library. We focus on supporting expert users in their various work tasks.

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Price, S., Delcambre, L., Nielsen, M. L., Tolle, T. Luk, V. Weaver, M., "Using Semantic Components to Facilitate Access to Domain-Specific Documents in Government Settings", Proc. of the 2006 National Digital Government Conference (dg.o 2006), 2 pages.

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Accelerated indexing in a domain-specific digital library
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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526 pages

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José A. B. Fortes
University of Florida
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Ann Macintosh
Napier University

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