A new method for fuzzy information retrieval based on fuzzy hierarchical clustering and fuzzy inference techniques

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 216-228

  Horng, Yih Jen ^a   Chen, Shyi Ming ^b   Chang, Yu Chuan ^b   Lee, Chia Hoang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy agglomerative hierarchical clustering; Fuzzy information retrieval systems; Fuzzy logic rules; Fuzzy relationships; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUZZY SETS; OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS;

FUZZY AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; FUZZY INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC RULES; FUZZY RELATIONSHIPS; QUERY EXPANSION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 17644368545     PISSN: 10636706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2004.840134     Document Type: Article

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