Expert finding has become an important retrieval task. Expert finding is about finding people rather than documents and the goal is to retrieve a ranked list of candidates/experts with …
Abstract The theory of Human Plausible Reasoning (HPR) is an attempt by Collins and Michalski to explain how people answer questions when they are uncertain. The theory …
This paper describes the usage of a new theory for combining various evidence provided by Plausible inferences in Information Retrieval (PLIR). PLIR is an experimental information …