An evaluation of the incorporation of a semantic network into a multidimensional retrieval engine

  • Authors:
  • Jinho Lee;David Grossman;Ratko Orlandic

  • Affiliations:
  • Illinois Institute of Technology;Illinois Institute of Technology;Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a new method for incorporating a hierarchical category dimension into an Information Retrieval framework. The approach is to use the synonym sets and the hyponym ("is-a") relations defined within Wordnet in order to derive a conceptual hierarchical category dimension. The hierarchical nature of a category dimension not only provides an overview of a set of documents but also facilitates the effectiveness and the efficiency of searching documents. An evaluation is performed on two different types of models and the multidimensional approach shows a significant reduction in the number of page accesses over a large document collection.