SCALE AND THE CLASSIFICATORY DIMENSION - A Linguistic Approach to Contextual IR

Esben Alfort

2010

Abstract

Users of information retrieval systems presumably have (subconscious) reasons for choosing certain ways of formulating their queries. Consequently, the words used may tell us something about the users’ intentions. However, researchers in Contextual IR have a strong emphasis on computational solutions and tend to ignore a careful linguistic analysis of the actual queries. As a first step towards such a linguistic treatment, I suggest that we treat classification as a dimension parallel to space and time and learn from our experience with these dimensions in trying to cope with subjectivity in connection with IR systems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alfort E. (2010). SCALE AND THE CLASSIFICATORY DIMENSION - A Linguistic Approach to Contextual IR . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-29-4, pages 370-373. DOI: 10.5220/0003078803700373

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod10,
author={Esben Alfort},
title={SCALE AND THE CLASSIFICATORY DIMENSION - A Linguistic Approach to Contextual IR},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={370-373},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003078803700373},
isbn={978-989-8425-29-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)
TI - SCALE AND THE CLASSIFICATORY DIMENSION - A Linguistic Approach to Contextual IR
SN - 978-989-8425-29-4
AU - Alfort E.
PY - 2010
SP - 370
EP - 373
DO - 10.5220/0003078803700373