Incorporating a Semantic Analysis into a Document Retrieval Strategy.

Edgar B. Wendlandt, James R. Driscoll: Incorporating a Semantic Analysis into a Document Retrieval Strategy. SIGIR 1991: 270-279

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/WendlandtD91,
  author    = {Edgar B. Wendlandt and
               James R. Driscoll},
  editor    = {Abraham Bookstein and
               Yves Chiaramella and
               Gerard Salton and
               Vijay V. Raghavan},
  title     = {Incorporating a Semantic Analysis into a Document Retrieval Strategy},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
               on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Chicago,
               Illinois, USA, October 13-16, 1991 (Special Issue of the SIGIR
               Forum)},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1991},
  isbn      = {0-89791-448-1},
  pages     = {270-279},
  ee        = {db/conf/sigir/WendlandtD91.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigir/91},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Current information retrieval systems focus on the use of keywords to respond to user queries. We propose the additional use of surface level knowledge in order to improve the accuracy of information retrieval. Our approach is based on the database concept of semantic modeling (particularly entities and relationships among entities). We extend the concept of query-document similarity by recognizing basic entity properties (attributes) which appear in text. We also extend query-document similarity using the linguistic concept of thematic roles. Thematic roles allow us to recognize relationship properties which appear in text. We include several examples to illustrate our approach. Test results which support our approach are reported. The test results concern searching documents and using their contents to perform the intelligent task of answering a question.

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