Modeling and combining evidence provided by document relationships using probabilistic argumentation systems
Justin Picard · 1998
Previous research has shown that hypertext links may be a useful source of evidence for document contents and relevance, but these evidence are rather difficult to represent and combine.This paper introduces a new and sound model for representing and handling hypertext links in IR.This model is based on ctProbabilistic Argumentation Systems )), a technique which combines logic and probability to handle uncertainty.Some experiments show the potential of this approach, which requires no ad-hoc parameters.