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Title: | Adaptive information retrieval employing formal concept analysis | ||||
Author: | Lungley, Deirdre |
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0000 0004 2735 7309
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Awarding Body: | University of Essex | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Essex | ||||
Date of Award: | 2012 | ||||
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In this thesis we propose the use of an adaptive interactive interface
to allow user exploration of the context of an intranet query. The
underlying domain model is that of a Formal Concept Analysis (FCA)
lattice. Understanding the difficulty of achieving optimum document
descriptors, essential for a browsable lattice, we propose harnessing
implicit user feedback in learning document/term associations.
We utilise a task-based methodology to evaluate subjects' perception
of the usefulness of our interactive interface and that of one adapted
through usage data. Results validated the usefulness of an interactive
lattice and our adaptation methodology.
As an intermediate method of evaluating the usefulness of a lattice
structure, we performed a series of technical evaluations in different do-
mains to evaluate the query suggestions provided by the lattice structure.
The results of these evaluations were very positive. To this end also,
we utilised TREC Session Track datasets - a search challenge match-
ing very closely the information sources employed in our methodology.
The results achieved validate the usefulness of the FCA approach in a
close-to-real setting in a Web environment.
In summation, our research validates the usefulness of log adaptation
as a means of overcoming the challenge of creating a query-based FCA
document lattice
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.573750 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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