Document (#16776)

Author

Nie, J.-Y.
Brisebois, M.

Title

¬An inferential approach to information retrieval and its implementation using a manual thesaurus

Source

Artificial intelligence review. 10(1996) nos.5/6, S.409-439

Year

1996

Abstract

Develops an inferential approach to information retrieval within a fuzzy modal logic framework, emphasising the logical component. The flexibility of this framework offers the possibility of incorporating human defined knowledge in the inference process. Describes a method to incorporate a human defined thesaurus into inference by taking user relevance feedback into consideration. Experiments on the CACM corpus using a general thesaurus of English, Wordnet, indicate a significant improvement in the system's performance

Footnote

Contribution to a special issue on the application of artificial intelligence to information retrieval

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