Business information query expansion through semantic network

  • Authors:
  • Zhiguo Gong;Maybin Muyeba;Jingzhi Guo

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau;Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK;Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau

  • Venue:
  • Enterprise Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this article, we propose a method for business information query expansions. In our approach, hypernym/hyponymy and synonym relations in WordNet are used as the basic expansion rules. Then we use WordNet Lexical Chains and WordNet semantic similarity to assign terms in the same query into different groups with respect to their semantic similarities. For each group, we expand the highest terms in the WordNet hierarchies with hypernym and synonym, the lowest terms with hyponym and synonym and all other terms with only synonym. In this way, the contradictory caused by full expansion can be well controlled. Furthermore, we use collection-related term semantic network to further improve the expansion performance. And our experiment reveals that our solution for query expansion can improve the query performance dramatically.