Building and applying a concept hierarchy representation of a user profile

Nikolaos Nanas, Victoria Uren, Anne de Roeck

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Abstract

Term dependence is a natural consequence of language use. Its successful representation has been a long standing goal for Information Retrieval research. We present a methodology for the construction of a concept hierarchy that takes into account the three basic dimensions of term dependence. We also introduce a document evaluation function that allows the use of the concept hierarchy as a user profile for Information Filtering. Initial experimental results indicate that this is a promising approach for incorporating term dependence in the way documents are filtered.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval - SIGIR '03
Place of PublicationNew York, NY (US)
PublisherACM
Pages198-204
Number of pages1
ISBN (Print)1-58113-646-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Event26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 28 Jul 20031 Aug 2003

Conference

Conference26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Abbreviated titleSIGIR’03
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period28/07/031/08/03

Keywords

  • term dependence
  • concept hierarchies
  • information filtering

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