Evolutionary learning multi-agent based information retrieval systems

MALEKI-DIZAJI, Saeedeh (2003). Evolutionary learning multi-agent based information retrieval systems. Doctoral, Sheffield Hallam University.

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Abstract

The volume and variety of information available on the Internet has experienced exponential growth, presenting a difficulty to users wishing to obtain information that accurately matches their interests. A number of factors affect the accuracy of matching user interests and the retrieved documents. First, is the fact that users often do not present queries to information retrieval systems in the form that optimally represents the information they want. Secondly, the measure of a document's relevance is highly subjective and variable between different users. This thesis addresses this problem with an adaptive approach that relies on evolutionary user-modelling. The proposed information retrieval system learns user needs from user-provided relevance feedback. The method combines a qualitative feedback measure obtained using fuzzy inference, and quantitative feedback based on evolutionary algorithms (Genetic Algorithms) fitness measures. Furthermore, the retrieval system's design approach is based on a multi-agent design approach, in order to handle the complexities of the information retrieval system including: document indexing, relevance feedback, user modelling, filtering and ranking the retrieve documents. The major contribution of this research are the combination of genetic algorithms and fuzzy relevance feedback for modelling adaptive behaviour, which is compared against conventional relevance feedback. Novel Genetic Algorithms operators are proposed within the context of textual; the encoding and vector space model for document representation is generalised within the same context.

Item Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Contributors:
Thesis advisor - Nyongesa, Henry
Thesis advisor - Siddiqi, Jawed
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Sheffield Hallam Doctoral Theses
Depositing User: Hilary Ridgway
Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2013 08:35
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2021 12:18
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6856

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