Lexical ambiguity and information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Using WordNet to disambiguate word senses for text retrieval
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Word sense disambiguation and information retrieval
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on history of information science
The impact on retrieval effectiveness of skewed frequency distributions
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Information Retrieval
Conceptual Information Retrieval of Technical Papers for Digital Libraries
ADL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries
Tagging English text with a probabilistic model
Computational Linguistics
An intelligent multilingual information browsing and retrieval system using information extraction
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Named entity recognition using an HMM-based chunk tagger
ACL '02 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Bibliographic database access using free-text and controlled vocabulary: an evaluation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Disambiguating toponyms in news
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Use of place information for improved event tracking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: AIRS2005: Information retrieval research in Asia
Searching in Medline: Query expansion and manual indexing evaluation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Mining, indexing, and searching for textual chemical molecule information on the web
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
A comparative study of probabilistic and language models for information retrieval
ADC '08 Proceedings of the nineteenth conference on Australasian database - Volume 75
Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A system for finding biological entities that satisfy certain conditions from texts
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
A proposal for chemical information retrieval evaluation
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Patent information retrieval
Automatic metadata generation using associative networks
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Evaluation of query expansion using MeSH in PubMed
Information Retrieval
Bioinformatics
Named entity recognition in biomedical texts using an HMM model
JNLPBA '04 Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications
Named entity recognition in query
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improvements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
AIRS '09 Proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium on Information Retrieval Technology
The impact of named entity normalization on information retrieval for question answering
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Conceptual language models for domain-specific retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Evaluating verbose query processing techniques
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Developing a robust part-of-speech tagger for biomedical text
PCI'05 Proceedings of the 10th Panhellenic conference on Advances in Informatics
A hybrid information retrieval model using metadata and text
ICADL'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Asian Digital Libraries: implementing strategies and sharing experiences
Using concept-based indexing to improve language modeling approach to genomic IR
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
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In ad hoc querying of document collections, current approaches to ranking primarily rely on identifying the documents that contain the query terms. Methods such as query expansion, based on thesaural information or automatic feedback, are used to add further terms, and can yield significant though usually small gains in effectiveness. Another approach to adding terms, which we investigate in this paper, is to use natural language technology to annotate - and thus disambiguate - key terms by the concept they represent. Using biomedical research documents, we quantify the potential benefits of tagging users' targeted concepts in queries and documents in domain-specific information retrieval. Our experiments, based on the TREC Genomics track data, both on passage and full-text retrieval, found no evidence that automatic concept recognition in general is of significant value for this task. Moreover, the issues raised by these results suggest that it is difficult for such disambiguation to be effective.