Soft Computing in Information Retrieval Techniques and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Crestani, Fabio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pasi, Gabriella (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 50
• Subjects: Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Artificial Intelligence.; IT in Business.

Information retrieval (IR) aims at defining systems able to provide a fast and effective content-based access to a large amount of stored information. The aim of an IR system is to estimate the relevance of documents to users' information needs, expressed by means of a query. This is a very dif...