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Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval archive
Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Dublin, Ireland

Pages: 91 - 100

Year of Publication: 1994

ISBN:0-387-19889-X

Authors

Brian Logan	Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Steven Reece	Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Karen Sparck Jones	Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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AICA : Assoc Italianai de Calcolo Automatico
BCS-IRSG : BCS/Information Retrieval Specialist Group
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Dublin City University : Dublin City University
Irish Comp Soc : Irish Computer Society
BCS-IRSB : BCS-IRSB

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Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 5

	David E. Losada , Alvaro Barreiro, Negations and document length in logical retrieval, Information Systems, v.31 n.7, p.610-620, November 2006
	Raymond Y.K. Lau , Peter D. Bruza , Dawei Song, Belief revision for adaptive information retrieval, Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, July 25-29, 2004, Sheffield, United Kingdom
	Adelheit Stein , Jon Atle Gulla , Ulrich Thiel, User-Tailored Planning of Mixed Initiative Information-Seeking Dialogues, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, v.9 n.1-2, p.133-166, April 1999
	Raymond Y. K. Lau , Peter D. Bruza , Dawei Song, Towards a belief-revision-based adaptive and context-sensitive information retrieval system, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), v.26 n.2, p.1-38, March 2008
	Marilyn A. Walker , Johanna D. Moore, Empirical studies in discourse, Computational Linguistics, v.23 n.1, p.1-12, March 1997

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

Additional Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
C.2.4 Distributed Systems
Subjects: Distributed applications

I. Computing Methodologies
I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
I.2.0 General
Subjects: Cognitive simulation
I.2.3 Deduction and Theorem Proving
Subjects: Nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Human Factors, Languages, Theory

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The authors model information intermediating by combining a general theory of belief revision due to Galliers with fundamental characterization of the intermediary proposed by Belkin and his colleagues. They developed a computational implement more...

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