Exploiting contextual independencies in web search and user profiling

IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1051-1056

  Butz, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONTEXTUAL INDEPENDENCIES; USER PROFILING; WEB SEARCH;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 0036454213     PISSN: 10987584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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