Action-Centered Information Retrieval. Issue 2 (9th March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: BALDUCCINI, MARCELLO; LEBLANC, EMILY C.
• Is Part Of: Theory and practice of logic programming. Volume 20:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 249
• Page End: 272
• Publication Date: 2020-03-09
• Subjects: reasoning about actions and change, -- answer set programming, -- information retrieval; Logic programming -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Constraint programming (Computer science) -- Periodicals; 005.115
• DOI: 10.1017/S1471068419000097
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1471-0684

Abstract

Abstract: Information retrieval (IR) aims at retrieving documents that are most relevant to a query provided by a user. Traditional techniques rely mostly on syntactic methods. In some cases, however, links at a deeper semantic level must be considered. In this paper, we explore a type of IR task in which documents describe sequences of events, and queries are about the state of the world after such events. In this context, successfully matching documents and query requires considering the events' possibly implicit uncertain effects and side effects. We begin by analyzing the problem, then propose an action language-based formalization, and finally automate the corresponding IR task using answer set programming.