A study of user profile representation for personalized cross-language information retrieval

Aslib Journal of Information Management

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 448-477

  Zhou, Dong ^a   Lawless, Séamus ^b   Wu, Xuan ^a   Zhao, Wenyu ^a   Liu, Jianxun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Automatic evaluation; Cross language information retrieval; Personalization; Query expansion; Topic models; User profile representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERSONALIZATIONS; QUERY EXPANSION; TOPIC MODEL; USER PROFILE;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84977596706     PISSN: 20503806     EISSN: 20503814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-06-2015-0091     Document Type: Article

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