Based on the idea that the closer the query terms in a document are, the more relevant this document is, we propose a mathematical model of information retrieval based on a fuzzy ...
Information Foraging (IF) Theory addresses user strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using on-line information. We present IF-based models and evaluations of two ...
The objective of most users for consulting any information database, information warehouse or the internet is to resolve one problem or the other. Available online or offline anno...
This paper describes the development of a rule-based computational model that describes how a feature-based representation of shared visual information combines with linguistic cu...
In this paper, we propose a new application of Bayesian language model based on Pitman-Yor process for information retrieval. This model is a generalization of the Dirichlet distr...