Using External Knowledge to Solve Multi-Dimensional Queries

  • Authors:
  • Saïd Radhouani;Gilles Falquet

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre Universitaire d'Informatique. Université de Genève 24, rue Général-Dufour, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland, {Said.Radhouani, Gilles.Falquet}@cui.unige.ch;Centre Universitaire d'Informatique. Université de Genève 24, rue Général-Dufour, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland, {Said.Radhouani, Gilles.Falquet}@cui.unige.ch

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Leading the Web in Concurrent Engineering: Next Generation Concurrent Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

To improve the precision of an information retrieval system in a specific domain we propose a new indexing scheme based on external knowledge resources such as thesauri or ontologies.We introduce the notion of domain dimension, which is a substructure of a knowledge resource, to formally represent the different aspects of a domain that appear in a document. Then, we identify dimensions in documents and queries using a conceptual indexing. The result of this indexing is a representation of each document along its semantic dimensions. We also propose a query processing based on multi-dimensional indexing. It is comprised of a dimensional filtering followed by a dimensional ranking. Experimental results on medical imaging documents (ImageCLEFmed-2005 collection) show that the dimensional filtering, using three dimensions, can improves the mean average precision by about 25%.