Basic Research on How to Retrieve Report of Judgement on Marine Disaster Inquiry Agency By Using a User Model

Abstract

Each user has characteristics in consulting Report of Judgement on Marine Disaster Inquiry Agency. In order to deal with users' different characteristics, the authors propose a retreival system of the Report including user models. User models play an important role in representing users' characteristics. We obtained a lawyer's user model who usually consults the Report. The results of this research are as follows, (1) The system including user models of the laywer was developed. (2) Contents of the Report and users' query sentences can be translated to intermediate language by user models. (3) Reterival can be executed through the intermedicate language.