Query paraphrasing enhancement using artificial bee colony

  • Authors:
  • Abeer Al-Dayel;Mourad Ykhlef

  • Affiliations:
  • King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Searching for information on the Web has become one of our most important and frequent activities. Sometimes, Web users may formulate a search query based upon their different levels of expertise or background knowledge, which may obscure some useful documents in retrieving results because the query vocabulary differs from the vocabulary within a particular document's collection. This raises the need for automatic query paraphrasing to generate different vocabulary term possibilities. In this study, we will improve a query paraphrasing technique using the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm in order to generate the most reliable paraphrased query from the initial search query automatically and without user supervision. Our proposed method shows an improvement in information retrieval performance compared with the genetic algorithm query paraphrasing system.