Vagueness and uncertainty in information retrieval: How can fuzzy sets help?

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Research Issues in Digital Libraries, IWRIDL-2006, in Association with ACM SIGIR

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kraft, Donald H ^a   Pasi, Gabriella ^b   Bordogna, Gloria ^c  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

artificial intelligence; clustering; fuzzy indexing; fuzzy set; fuzzy set theory; genetic programming; imprecision; information retrieval; rough sets; uncertainty; vagueness

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; FLEXIBLE SYSTEM; FUZZY INDEXING; FUZZY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION REPRESENTATION; ROUGH SET; VAGUENESS AND UNCERTAINTY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESEARCH; ROUGH SET THEORY;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 77954497200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1364742.1364746     Document Type: Conference Paper

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