Towards a belief-revision-based adaptive and context-sensitive information retrieval system

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Lau, Raymond Y K ^a   Bruza, Peter D ^b   Song, Dawei ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive information retrieval; Belief revision; Information flow; Retrieval context; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; BELIEF REVISION; BELIEF REVISION THEORY; INFORMATION FLOW; RETRIEVAL CONTEXT; TEXT MINING;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 42049092041     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1344411.1344414     Document Type: Article

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