An evaluation of the accuracy of capturing user intent for information retrieval

Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2007

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 341-347

  Nguyen, Hien ^a   Santos Jr , Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation of user models; User model for information retrieval

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT PROCESS; INFORMATION SEEKING; SHORT TERM; USER MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78650736495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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