Concept-Based Feature Generation and Selection for Information Retrieval

Proceedings of the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1132-1137

  Egozi, Ofer ^a   Gabrilovich, Evgeniy ^a   Markovitch, Shaul ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SELECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE; CONCEPT-BASED; FEATURE GENERATION; FEATURES SELECTION; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY-WORDS; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM USE; WIKIPEDIA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84875030103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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