Title :
Fuzzy rule based information retrieval
Author :
Bordogna, Gloria ; Pasi, Gabriella
Author_Institution :
Ist. per le Tecnologie Inf. Multimediali, CNR, Milano, Italy
Abstract :
A fuzzy rule based approach to information retrieval is presented. To take into account the vagueness which characterizes the synthesis of the document´s contents we propose a document representation which is based on a linguistic evaluation of the significance of terms. We also define a rule based mechanism to produce a linguistic estimate of the relevance of a document to a user´s query in which significance labels are specified for each term
Keywords :
document handling; fuzzy set theory; information retrieval; knowledge based systems; linguistics; document representation; fuzzy rule based approach; fuzzy rule based information retrieval; linguistic estimate; linguistic evaluation; rule based mechanism; significance labels; user query; vagueness; Content based retrieval; Fuzzy systems; Indexing; Information analysis; Information management; Information retrieval; Performance analysis; Query processing; Text analysis; Thesauri;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 1999. NAFIPS. 18th International Conference of the North American
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5211-4
DOI :
10.1109/NAFIPS.1999.781761
