Relevance as resonance: A new theoretical perspective and a practical utilization in information filtering

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-19

  Brouard, Christophe ^a   Nie, Jian Yun ^b  

^a Laboratoire CLIPS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive science; Information filtering; Information retrieval; Relevance; Resonance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RESONANCE;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0345358544     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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