A multilevel approach to intelligent information filtering: Model, system, and evaluation

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 368-399

  Mostafa, J ^a   Mukhopadhyay, S ^b,d   Lam, W ^c   Palakal, M ^b,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

H.3.3 Information Storage and Retrieval : Information Search and Retrieval clustering; I.2.6 Artificial Intelligence : Learning; I.7.3 Text Processing : Index Generation; Selection process

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT INFORMATION FILTERING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031248276     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/263479.263481     Document Type: Review

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