Bayesian belief networks for IR

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 163-179

  De Cristo, Marco Antônio Pinheiro ^a,d   Calado, Pável Pereira ^a   De Lourdes da Silveira, Maria ^a,e   Silva, Ilmério ^b   Muntz, Richard ^c   Ribeiro Neto, Berthier ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d Technology Foundation   (Brazil)

^e Prodabel   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Evidence combination; Information retrieval; Ranking

Indexed keywords

QUERY LANGUAGES; TEXT PROCESSING; VECTORS; WEBSITES;

BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0142126256     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2003.07.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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