A review of ontology based query expansion

  • Authors:
  • J. Bhogal;A. Macfarlane;P. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom;School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom;School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper examines the meaning of context in relation to ontology based query expansion and contains a review of query expansion approaches. The various query expansion approaches include relevance feedback, corpus dependent knowledge models and corpus independent knowledge models. Case studies detailing query expansion using domain-specific and domain-independent ontologies are also included. The penultimate section attempts to synthesise the information obtained from the review and provide success factors in using an ontology for query expansion. Finally the area of further research in applying context from an ontology to query expansion within a newswire domain is described.