Building and Applying a Concept Hierarchy Representation of a User Profile

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages 198-204

  Nanas, Nikolaos ^a   Uren, Victoria ^a   De Roeck, Anne ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concept Hierarchies; Information Filtering; Term Dependence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FEEDBACK; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; REDUNDANCY;

CONCEPT HIERARCHIES; INFORMATION FILTERING; TERM DEPENDENCE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1542287490     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/860472.860473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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