scholarly journals Query Expansion based on Local Distributional Thesauri

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiano Tavares Da Silva ◽  
José Everardo Bessa Maia
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Context Analysis

This work proposes and evaluates an approach to query expansion in Information Retrieval based on Local Context Analysis using a Distributional Semantic Representation. In general, the approach performed better compared to that of query expansion using non-distributional, local or global techniques, running over datasets of different application domains.

scholarly journals Luppar: An Information Retrieval System for Closed Document Collections

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiano Tavares Da Silva ◽  
José Everardo Bessa Maia
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Information Retrieval System ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Document Collections

This article presents Luppar, an Information Retrieval tool for closed collections of documents which uses a local distributional semantic model associated to each corpus. The system performs automatic query expansion using a combination of distributional semantic model and local context analysis and supports relevancy feedback. The performance of the system was evaluated in databases of different domains and presented results equal to or higher than those published in the literature.

A method of query expansion based on topic models and user profile for search in folksonomy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zhinan Gou ◽  
Yan Li
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Expansion Method ◽  
Collaborative Tagging ◽  
Search Query ◽  
Tagging System ◽  
The Web

With the development of the web 2.0 communities, information retrieval has been widely applied based on the collaborative tagging system. However, a user issues a query that is often a brief query with only one or two keywords, which leads to a series of problems like inaccurate query words, information overload and information disorientation. The query expansion addresses this issue by reformulating each search query with additional words. By analyzing the limitation of existing query expansion methods in folksonomy, this paper proposes a novel query expansion method, based on user profile and topic model, for search in folksonomy. In detail, topic model is constructed by variational antoencoder with Word2Vec firstly. Then, query expansion is conducted by user profile and topic model. Finally, the proposed method is evaluated by a real dataset. Evaluation results show that the proposed method outperforms the baseline methods.

Semantic Representation of a Geo-Social User Profile for a Personalised Information Retrieval

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150044
Author(s):  
Tahar Rafa ◽  
Samir Kechid
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Search System ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
User Interests ◽  
Situational Contexts ◽  
User Query

The user-centred information retrieval needs to introduce semantics into the user modelling for a meaningful representation of user interests. The semantic representation of the user interests helps to improve the identification of the user’s future cognitive needs. In this paper, we present a semantic-based approach for a personalised information retrieval. This approach is based on the design and the exploitation of a user profile to represent the user and his interests. In this user profile, we combine an ontological semantics issued from WordNet ontology, and a personal semantics issued from the different user interactions with the search system and with his social and situational contexts of his previous searches. The personal semantics considers the co-occurrence relations between relevant components of the user profile as semantic links. The user profile is used to improve two important phases of the information search process: (i) expansion of the initial user query and (ii) adaptation of the search results to the user interests.

Context Window Based Co-occurrence Approach for Improving Feedback Based Query Expansion in Information Retrieval

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagendra Singh ◽  
Aditi Sharan
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Relevance Feedback ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Optimal Combination ◽  
Query Term ◽  
Benchmark Data ◽  
First Pass ◽  
Baseline Approach ◽  
Pseudo Relevance Feedback

Pseudo-relevance feedback (PRF) is a type of relevance feedback approach of query expansion that considers the top ranked retrieved documents as relevance feedback. In this paper the authors focus is to capture the limitation of co-occurrence and PRF based query expansion approach and the authors proposed a hybrid method to improve the performance of PRF based query expansion by combining query term co-occurrence and query terms contextual information based on corpus of top retrieved feedback documents in first pass. Firstly, the paper suggests top retrieved feedback documents based query term co-occurrence approach to select an optimal combination of query terms from a pool of terms obtained using PRF based query expansion. Second, contextual window based approach is used to select the query context related terms from top feedback documents. Third, comparisons were made among baseline, co-occurrence and contextual window based approaches using different performance evaluating metrics. The experiments were performed on benchmark data and the results show significant improvement over baseline approach.

A study of user profile representation for personalized cross-language information retrieval

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Zhou ◽  
Séamus Lawless ◽  
Xuan Wu ◽  
Wenyu Zhao ◽  
Jianxun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
User Profile ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cross Language Information Retrieval ◽  
Cross Lingual ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Representation Techniques ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Purpose – With an increase in the amount of multilingual content on the World Wide Web, users are often striving to access information provided in a language of which they are non-native speakers. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive study of user profile representation techniques and investigate their use in personalized cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) systems through the means of personalized query expansion. Design/methodology/approach – The user profiles consist of weighted terms computed by using frequency-based methods such as tf-idf and BM25, as well as various latent semantic models trained on monolingual documents and cross-lingual comparable documents. This paper also proposes an automatic evaluation method for comparing various user profile generation techniques and query expansion methods. Findings – Experimental results suggest that latent semantic-weighted user profile representation techniques are superior to frequency-based methods, and are particularly suitable for users with a sufficient amount of historical data. The study also confirmed that user profiles represented by latent semantic models trained on a cross-lingual level gained better performance than the models trained on a monolingual level. Originality/value – Previous studies on personalized information retrieval systems have primarily investigated user profiles and personalization strategies on a monolingual level. The effect of utilizing such monolingual profiles for personalized CLIR remains unclear. The current study fills the gap by a comprehensive study of user profile representation for personalized CLIR and a novel personalized CLIR evaluation methodology to ensure repeatable and controlled experiments can be conducted.

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