Based on the idea that the closer the query terms are in a document, the more relevant this document is, we experiment an IR method based on a fuzzy proximity degree of the query term occurences in a document to compute its relevance to the query. Our model is able to deal with Boolean queries, but contrary to the traditional extensions of the basic Boolean IR model, it does not explicitly use ...

This paper proposes a query expansion method using fuzzy abductive inference for creative thinking support system. This query expansion method for information retrieval is useful, because unexpected related information are probably be obtained by adding new words to the query. The fuzzy abductive inference is the inference method based on Peng and Reggia's abductive inference. This method infer...

This paper proposes a logical reconstruction of the classical fuzzy relational database model to accommodate fuzzy disjunctive information. In query processing, we use two supplementary measurements, matching information and extra information, to model the concepts of imprecision and uncertainty, respectively. We also use these two supplementary measurements to determine the quality of answers ...

This paper presents a search system in the Internet capable to achieve the conceptual matching between the concepts contained in a web page and the implicit concepts in the user’s query, that is, the proposed system is able to retrieve the web pages that contain the concepts (not the words) specified in the query (called Clustered Organized Conceptual queries in this paper). This system uses th...

For reasoning over streams of data ontology-based data access is a common approach. The method for answering conjunctive queries (CQs) over DL-Lite ontologies in this setting is by rewritings of the query and evaluation of the resulting query by a data base engine. For streambased applications the classical expressivity of DL-Lite lacks means to handle fuzzy and temporal information. In this pa...

Modern Information Retrieval Systems match the terms included in a user’s query with available documents, through the use of an index. A fuzzy thesaurus is used to enrich the query with associated terms. In this work, we use semantic entities, rather than terms; this allows us to use knowledge stored in a semantic encyclopedia, specifically the ordering relations, in order to perform a semantic...

We present a novel approach to fuzzy description logic programs (or simply fuzzy dl-programs) under the answer set semantics, which is a tight integration of fuzzy disjunctive logic programs under the answer set semantics with fuzzy description logics. From a different perspective, it is a generalization of tightly coupled disjunctive dl-programs by fuzzy vagueness in both the description logic...

We present a scheme for modeling expert like flexibility in query-answering through extending information bases with a knowledge-based soft computing layer for query processing. The knowledge extends the each attribute with a similarity measure on its domain. The measures are applied in a soft query interpretation into a fuzzy set expression of the information need to be satisfied. The softenin...

Most query languages are designed to retrieve information from databases containing precise and certain data using precisely specified commands. Due to the advancements in various kinds of data repositories in the recent years, there is a steep increase in complex queries. Most of the complex Queries are uncertain and vague. The existing Structured Query Language exhibits its inefficiency in ha...