Combining General Hand-Made and Automatically Constructed Thesauri for Query Expansion in Information Retrieval

Mandala, Rila; Tokunaga, Takenobu; Tanaka, Hozumi

Combining General Hand-Made and Automatically Constructed Thesauri for Query Expansion in Information Retrieval

Rila Mandala, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka

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Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language Processing. Pages 920-924.

Abstract

One of the most intuitive ideas for enhancing the effectiveness of an inform at ion retrieval system is to include the use of a thesaurus. WordNet, as a hand-crafted and general-purpose thesaurus, intuitively should also work fine in information retrieval, but unfortunately, experimental results by many researchers have not been promising. Th ereby in t his p aper we investigate why the use of WordNet in informat ion retrieval has not been successful. Based on this analysis we propose a method to combine WordN et with pr edicateargument-based and co -occurrence-based automat ica ll y co n structe d t hesauri. Experiments using large test collection shows that our method results in a significant improvement of information r etr ieval performance.

Rila Mandala, Takenobu Tokunaga, and Hozumi Tanaka. 1999. Combining General Hand-Made and Automatically Constructed Thesauri for Query Expansion in Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-99. IJCAI, 920–924. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/131

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