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Morphological typology of languages for IR
Ari PirkolaThis paper presents a morphological classification of languages from the IR perspective. Linguistic typology research has shown that the morphological complexity of every language…
Observations concerning the two‐ and three‐year synchronous impact factor, based on the Chinese science citation database
Ronald Rousseau, Bihui Jin, Ninghui YangGenerally speaking, the three‐year synchronous impact factor is larger than the two‐year one. This follows from theoretical models derived from observations based on ISIÒs…
Document text characteristics affect the ranking of the most relevant documents by expanded structured queries
Eero Sormunen, Jaana Kekÿlÿinen, Jussi Koivisto, Kalervo JÿrvelinThe increasing flood of documentary information through the Internet and other information sources challenges the developers of information retrieval systems. It is not enough…
A user study of the design issues of propie: a novel environment for enhanced interaction and value‐adding of electronic documents
Chern Li Liew, Schubert Foo, K.R. ChennupatiIn this paper, we present a proposed information environment (PROPIE) for enhanced interaction and value‐adding of electronic documents (e‐documents). The design of PROPIE was…
Acknowledgement trends in the research literature of information science
Blaise CroninData were gathered on acknowledgements in five leading information science journals for the years 1991‐1999. The results were compared with data from two earlier studies of the…
Economic aspects of a national electronic reserve service
Leah Halliday, Charles OppenheimEconomic aspects of a national electronic reserve service (NERS) were explored using Ithink Analyst, a modelling software package. A model was developed and simulations were used…

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