Information Filtering as a Knowledge Organization process: techniques and evaluation

International audienceIn this study, we are concerned by a field which represents an intellectual, social, and economic practice, strongly linked to a semi-automatic knowledge organization. lnformational Competitive lntelligence is characterized by two major distinctive features: transition from the classical activity of Information Retrieval to organised lnformation Filtering, then conversion of filtered information into Knowledge to help decision making. In the paper, we first show that information filtering systems may be considered as semi-automatic knowledge organization devices in the business intelligence context. Then, we point out how the technical dimension of the system must be arranged with the user dimension in order to approach a real relevance. Finally, we present the overview of the lnfile evaluation campaign which represents an attempt to validate our approach