Genre theory and adolescent information retrieval

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The socio - cognitive theory in information retrieval (IR)

Abstract Background and Aim: The socio-cognitive theory introduced in information science by Horland and Alberchtsen. The socio-cognitive view turns the traditional cognitive program upside down. The socio-cognitive theory emphasizes on different cultural and social structures of users. Hence, the aim of the article is to explain the role of socio - cognitive theory in information retrieval (I...

Information Retrieval and Information Theory

Information retrieval is concerned with how to classify information and how to judge the similarity between two objects, such aswritten documents. As the amount of information available in digital formhas grown, so too has theneed for accurate and scalable algorithms for handling this information. Information theory is concerned with the production and transmission of information. Using a frame...

Genre and Domain Processing in an Information Retrieval Perspective

The massive amount of textual data on the Web raises numerous classification problems. Although the notion of domain is widely acknowledged in the IR field, the applicative concept of genre could solve its weaknesses by taking into account the linguistic properties and the document structures of the texts. Two clustering methods are proposed here to illustrate the complementarity of the notions...

Retrieval Models for Genre Classification

Genre provides a characterization of a document with respect to its form or functional trait. Genre is orthogonal to topic, rendering genre information a powerful filter technology for information seekers in digital libraries. However, an efficient means for genre classification is an open and controversially discussed issue. This paper gives an overview and presents new results related to auto...