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A query expansion algorithm based on phrases semantic similarity

  • Yongli Liu*
  • , Chao Li
  • , Pin Zhang
  • , Zhang Xiong
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

During the indexing process of traditional search engine, web pages become a list of terms, but single term cannot represent the rich content of web pages, which makes information retrieval methods mainly based on terms matching often result in depressed precision. This paper proposes a novel query expansion technique that has phrases as its expansion unit. Phrases typically have a higher information content and a smaller degree of ambiguity than their constituent words, and therefore represent the concepts expressed in text more accurately than single terms. This method extracts key phrases from original results, and calculates the semantic similarity between the query phrase and each phrase extracted using the semantic similarity algorithm based on WordNet, and then expands the query with the most similar phrases to search again. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can provide more precision than the traditional query expansion methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Symposium on Information Processing, ISIP 2008 and International Pacific Workshop on Web Mining and Web-Based Application, WMWA 2008
Pages31-35
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
EventInternational Symposium on Information Processing, ISIP 2008 and International Pacific Workshop on Web Mining and Web-Based Application, WMWA 2008 - Moscow, Russian Federation
Duration: 23 May 200825 May 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Symposium on Information Processing, ISIP 2008 and International Pacific Workshop on Web Mining and Web-Based Application, WMWA 2008

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Information Processing, ISIP 2008 and International Pacific Workshop on Web Mining and Web-Based Application, WMWA 2008
Country/TerritoryRussian Federation
CityMoscow
Period23/05/0825/05/08

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