Experiments on using fuzzy quantified sentences in adhoc retrieval

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1059-1066

  Losada, David E ^a   Díaz Hermida, Félix ^a   Bugarín, Alberto ^a   Barro, Senén ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy quantifiers; Information Retrieval

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

EXTENDED BOOLEAN MODELS (EBM); FUZZY QUANTIFIERS; LARGE SCALE EVALUATION; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 2442608838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/967900.968116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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