A failure analysis of the limitation of suffixing in an online environment
SIGIR '87 Proceedings of the 10th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information retrieval
Representation and learning in information retrieval
Representation and learning in information retrieval
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
Viewing morphology as an inference process
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Word sense disambiguation for free-text indexing using a massive semantic network
CIKM '93 Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query expansion using lexical-semantic relations
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th 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
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
WordNet: a lexical database for English
Communications of the ACM
Querying across languages: a dictionary-based approach to multilingual information retrieval
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Experiments on using semantic distances between words in image caption retrieval
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Phrasal translation and query expansion techniques for cross-language information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Corpus-based stemming using cooccurrence of word variants
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
SIGDOC '86 Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation
Extended Boolean information retrieval
Communications of the ACM
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
Information Retrieval
Using Character Shape Coding for Information Retrieval
ICDAR '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Integrating multiple knowledge sources to disambiguate word sense: an exemplar-based approach
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Estimating upper and lower bounds on the performance of word-sense disambiguation programs
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
HLT '91 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
HLT '93 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology
A Comparison of Word- and Sense-Based Text Categorization Using Several Classification Algorithms
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Information retrieval using word senses: root sense tagging approach
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Text characteristics of English language university Web sites: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
Differentiating homonymy and polysemy in information retrieval
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Quantify query ambiguity using ODP metadata
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
HLT '02 Proceedings of the second international conference on Human Language Technology Research
Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Document frequency and term specificity
Large Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video, and Sound)
Quantifying the impact of concept recognition on biomedical information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Interactive sense feedback for difficult queries
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Does word sense disambiguation improve information retrieval?
Proceedings of the fourth workshop on Exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval
An experimental study on syntactic and semantic annotations in text retrieval
Proceedings of the fourth workshop on Exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval
Click patterns: an empirical representation of complex query intents
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Latent word context model for information retrieval
Information Retrieval
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We present an analysis of word senses that provides a fresh insight into the impact of word ambiguity on retrieval effectiveness with potential broader implications for other processes of information retrieval. Using a methodology of forming artifically ambiguous words, known as pseudowords, and through reference to other researchers' work, the analysis illustrates that the distribution of the frequency of occurrance of the senses of a word plays a strong role in ambiguity's impact of effectiveness. Further investigation shows that this analysis may also be applicable to other processes of retrieval, such as Cross Language Information Retrieval, query expansion, retrieval of OCR'ed texts, and stemming. The analysis appears to provide a means of explaining, at least in part, reasons for the processes' impact (or lack of it) on effectiveness.