An MDA Approach to Implement Personal IR Tools

We introduce TIRA1 , a software architecture for the rapid prototyping of tailored information retrieval (IR) tools. TIRA allows to compose personal IR tools from atomic IR services, following the model driven architecture (MDA) paradigm: In a first step, an IR process is defined independently from platforms, by means of a UML activity diagram. In a second step, the activity diagram is transformed to a platform specific model, which is executed in a distributed environment. Major driving force behind our research is the question of personalization: We see a large gap between information retrieval theory and algorithms on the one hand and their implementation and deployment to satisfy a personal information need on the other. This gap can be closed with adequate software engineering means, and TIRA shall contribute in this respect. Tjoa, Wagner (Eds.): Proceedings of the Dexa ’07, Regensburg 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications ISBN 0-7695-2932...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DEXAW
• Authors: Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Benno Stein
• Keywords: Activity Diagram, Atomic Ir Services, Database, DEXAW 2007, Personal Ir Tools