Flexible Query Answering Systems
Subtitle: 5th International Conference, FQAS 2002. Copenhagen, Denmark, October 27-29, 2002Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
Contributors: Troels Andreasen (Editor); Amihai Motro (Editor); Henning Christiansen (Editor); Henrik Legind Larsen (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9783540000747
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; General Theory of Computing; Database searching; Computers; Information Storage & Retrieval; Database Engineering; Computers - General Information; Database Management - General; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Adaptive Query Answering; Classifier Systems; Clustering; Computers / Information Storage & Retrieval; Conceptual Querying; Data Analysis; Data Mining; Database Queries; Digital Library Queries; Question-answering systems; Congresses
First sentence: An Information Retrieval System (IRS) consists of a database, containing a number of documents, an index, that associates each document to its related terms, and a matching mechanism, that maps the user's query (which consists of terms), to a set of contained documents.