Web discovery and filtering based on textual relevance feedback learning

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 136-163

  Lam, Wai ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Yue, Che Wang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Randomized search; Simulated annealing; WWW discovery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HTML; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TEXT PROCESSING; WEBSITES;

INTELLIGENT WEB EXPLORATION; RANDOMIZED SEARCH; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK LEARNING; WEB FILTERING; WEB INFORMATION DISCOVERY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0142071788     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8640.00217     Document Type: Article

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