A Fuzzy Logic intelligent agent for Information Extraction: Introducing a new Fuzzy Logic-based term weighting scheme

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4567-4581

  Ropero, Jorge ^a   Gómez, Ariel ^a   Carrasco, Alejandro ^a   León, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fuzzy Logic; Index terms; Information Extraction; Information Retrieval; Intelligent agent; Term weighting; Vector Space Model

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; FUZZY LOGIC ENGINES; INDEX TERMS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SEVILLE; TERM WEIGHTING; TERM WEIGHTING SCHEME; TREE STRUCTURES; VECTOR SPACE MODEL; WEB PORTAL;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PORTALS; SEARCH ENGINES; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VECTOR SPACES;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 82255192151     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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