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Business Context Information Manager: application to Information Retrieval

Authors:
Hamdi Chaker
Max Chevalier
Chantal Soulé-Dupuy
André Tricot

Keywords: Context information management, Contextual Dimension, Situation, Contextual Information Retrieval, Business tasks, Information-related tasks

Abstract:
Taking into account the context is important to improve the way systems provide relevant information to users. For this purpose, we introduce a business context information manager based on a novel and generic interpretation of the context. This manager takes into account various contextual dimensions and acts as an intermediary between information retrieval system and contextual information. The approach presented in this paper is suitable to any business context but in the paper we particularly illustrate it in Information Retrieval (IR) field. This approach relies on an original process (MES) that manages the various contextual dimensions to create a unique situation at a moment t. To this end, MES uses rules set which is the knowledge of the context manager. The situations will be used by a third part application (i.e., IR systems) for activity adaptation. Furthermore, an extracting process is also proposed to improve the context manager reliability over time and to facilitate its knowledge evolution. Finally, the proposed BCIM have been implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.

Pages: 28 to 33

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-167-0

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011