Query expansion in information retrieval systems using a Bayesian network-based thesaurus

  • Authors:
  • Luis M. de Campos;Juan M. Fernández;Juan F. Huete

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e I.A., E.T.S.I. Informática, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e I.A., E.T.S.I. Informática, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e I.A., E.T.S.I. Informática, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Venue:
  • UAI'98 Proceedings of the Fourteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with the identification of documents in a collection that are relevant to a given information need, usually represented as a query containing terms or keywords, which are supposed to be a good description of what the user is looking for. IR systems may improve their effectiveness (i.e., increasing the number of relevant documents retrieved) by using a process of query expansion, which automatically adds new terms to the original query posed by an user. In this paper we develop a method of query expansion based on Bayesian networks. IJsing a learning algorithm, we construct a Bayesian network that represents some of the relationships among the terms appearing in a given document collection; this network is then used as a thesaurus (specific for that collection). We also report the results obtained by our method on three standard test collections.