Context-sensitive text mining and belief revision for intelligent information retrieval on the web

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 151-172

  Lau, Raymond Y K ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive information agents; Belief revision; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; DATA MINING; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TEXT PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION AGENTS; BELIEF REVISION; TEXT MINING; VECTOR SPACE MODEL;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 2942563819     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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