Ontology-Based Document and Query Representation May Improve the Effectiveness of Information Retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Mauro Dragoni;Célia da Costa Pereira;Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Via Bramante 65, I-26013 Crema (CR), Italy, email: mauro.dragoni,celia.pereira,andrea.tettamanzi@unimi.it;Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Via Bramante 65, I-26013 Crema (CR), Italy, email: mauro.dragoni,celia.pereira,andrea.tettamanzi@unimi.it;Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Via Bramante 65, I-26013 Crema (CR), Italy, email: mauro.dragoni,celia.pereira,andrea.tettamanzi@unimi.it

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on STAIRS 2010: Proceedings of the Fifth Starting AI Researchers' Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a vector space model approach to representing documents and queries, which considers concepts instead of terms and uses WordNet as a light ontology. This representation reduces information redundancy with respect to conventional semantic expansion techniques. Experiments carried out on the MuchMore benchmark and on the TREC-7 and TREC-8 Ad-hoc collections demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.