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Quantum Theory-inspired search

  • Diederik Aerts*
  • , Peter Bruza
  • , Yuexian Hou
  • , Joemon Jose
  • , Massimo Melucci
  • , Jian Yun Nie
  • , Dawei Song
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • Tianjin University
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of Padua
  • University of Montreal
  • Robert Gordon University

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Abstract

With the huge number and diversity of the users, the advertising products and services, the rapid growth of online multimedia resources, the context of information needs are even more broad and complex. Although research in search engine technology has led to various models over the past three decades, the investigation for effectively integrating the dimensions of context to deploy advanced search technology has been limited due to the lack of a unified modeling and evaluation framework. Quantum Theory (QT) has created new and unprecedented means for communicating and computing. Besides computer science, optics, electronics, physics, QT and search engine technology can be combined: interference in user interaction; entanglement in cognition; superposition in word meaning; non-classical probability in information ranking; complex vector spaces in multimedia search. This paper highlights our recent results on QT-inspired search engine technology.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)278-280
Number of pages3
JournalProcedia Computer Science
Volume7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition 2011, FET 11 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 4 May 20116 May 2011

Keywords

  • Hilbert vector spaces
  • Information retrieval
  • Language and cognition
  • Quantum probability theory

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