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International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems

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User Preference Information in Query Answering

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This paper discusses the use of usage information to enhance cooperative behaviour from query answering systems. A user can pose a query to the system by providing (at query time) update and preference information. Updates allow us to model dynamically evolving worlds and preferences allow us to facilitate the retrieval of information by targeting the answers of the system with respect to users’ interests in a given context.

Pereira acknowledges the support of POCTI project 40958 “FLUX - FleXible Logical Updates” and Dell'Acqua a Research Grant by the Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne.

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  1. Department of Science and Technology - ITN, Linköping University, 601 74, Norrköping, Sweden

    Pierangelo Dell'Acqua & Aida Vitória1

  2. Centro de Inteligência Artificial - CENTRIA Departamento de Informática, F aculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Pierangelo Dell'Acqua & Luís Moniz Pereira

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. Roskilde University, Building 42-1, P.O. Box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen  & Henning Christiansen  & 

  4. Department of Information and Software Engineering School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, 22030-4444, Virginia, USA

    Amihai Motro

  5. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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Dell'Acqua, P., Moniz Pereira, L., Vitória1, A. (2002). User Preference Information in Query Answering. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H., Motro, A., Legind Larsen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36109-X_13

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