An Abstraction-Based Data Model for Information Retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Richard A. Mcallister;Rafal A. Angryk

  • Affiliations:
  • Montana State University Department of Computer Science, Bozeman 59717-3880;Montana State University Department of Computer Science, Bozeman 59717-3880

  • Venue:
  • AI '09 Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Language ontologies provide an avenue for automated lexical analysis that may be used to supplement existing information retrieval methods. This paper presents a method of information retrieval that takes advantage of WordNet, a lexical database, to generate paths of abstraction, and uses them as the basis for an inverted index structure to be used in the retrieval of documents from an indexed corpus. We present this method as a entree to a line of research on using ontologies to perform word-sense disambiguation and improve the precision of existing information retrieval techniques.