ALLOY: an amalgamation of expert, linguistic and statistical indexing methods

  • Authors:
  • L. P. Jones;C. deBessonet;S. Kundu

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana;Southern University Law School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana;Computer Science Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '88 Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

In this paper we report progress on the development of ALLOY, a system that simplifies automatic document indexing and retrieval by combining techniques from several different approaches: expert, linguistic and statistical. The system is being designed to allow a panel of experts to create an ALLOY system for a given field by providing the necessary input that ALLOY needs to automatically index documents and to set up a convenient user interface. The input provided by the experts includes a hierarchy of concepts and an expert dictionary. The amount of information that the panel must provide for given field is considerably less than the amount required to build a complete thesaurus or knowledge base about that field.