A review on the application of evolutionary computation to information retrieval

O Cordón, E Herrera-Viedma, C López-Pujalte… - International Journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
In this contribution, different proposals found in the specialized literature for the application
of evolutionary computation to the field of information retrieval will be reviewed. To do so …

The effects of fitness functions on genetic programming‐based ranking discovery for Web search

W Fan, EA Fox, P Pathak, H Wu - Journal of the American …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic‐based evolutionary learning algorithms, such as genetic algorithms (GAs) and
genetic programming (GP), have been applied to information retrieval (IR) since the 1980s …

Web mining: a survey in the fuzzy framework

D Arotaritei, S Mitra - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2004 - Elsevier
This article provides a survey of the available literature on fuzzy Web mining. The different
aspects of Web mining, like clustering, association rule mining, navigation, personalization …

A survey of genetic feature selection in mining issues

MJ Martin-Bautista, MA Vila - Proceedings of the 1999 …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review the feature selection problem in mining issues. The application of
soft computing techniques to data mining and knowledge discovery is now emerging in …

A generic ranking function discovery framework by genetic programming for information retrieval

W Fan, MD Gordon, P Pathak - Information Processing & Management, 2004 - Elsevier
Ranking functions play a substantial role in the performance of information retrieval (IR)
systems and search engines. Although there are many ranking functions available in the IR …

A communication model based on the 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic representation for a distributed intelligent agent system on internet

M Delgado, F Herrera, E Herrera-Viedma… - Soft Computing, 2002 - Springer
Internet users are assisted by means of distributed intelligent agents in the information
gathering process to find the fittest information to their needs. In this paper we present a …

Personalization of search engine services for effective retrieval and knowledge management

W Fan, M Gordon, P Pathak - 2000 - aisel.aisnet.org
The Internet and corporate intranets provide far more information than anybody can absorb.
People use search engines to find the information they require. However, these systems …

Genetic programming-based discovery of ranking functions for effective web search

W Fan, MD Gordon, P Pathak… - Journal of Management …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Web search engines have become an integral part of the daily life of a knowledge worker,
who depends on these search engines to retrieve relevant information from the Web or from …

Order‐based fitness functions for genetic algorithms applied to relevance feedback

C López‐Pujalte, VP Guerrero‐Bote… - Journal of the …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Recently there have been appearing new applications of genetic algorithms to information
retrieval, most of them specifically to relevance feedback. The evolution of the possible …

A new evolutionary algorithm combining simulated annealing and genetic programming for relevance feedback in fuzzy information retrieval systems

O Cordón, F Moya, C Zarco - Soft Computing, 2002 - Springer
Relevance feedback techniques have demonstrated to be a powerful means to improve the
results obtained when a user submits a query to an information retrieval system as the world …