Advances in search technology have meant that search systems can now offer assistance to users beyond simply retrieving a set of documents. For example, search systems are now cap...
: In the context of knowledge management, we focus on the representation and the retrieval of past experiences called cases within the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) paradigm. CBR is a...
Abstract. We present a framework that assesses relevance with respect to several relevance criteria, by combining the query-dependent and query-independent evidence indicating thes...
Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...
This thesis investigates application of clustering to multi-criteria ratings as a method of improving the precision of top-N recommendations. With the advent of ecommerce sites th...