Indexing with WordNet synsets can improve Text Retrieval

dc.creatorGonzalo, Julio
dc.creatorVerdejo, Felisa
dc.creatorChugur, Irina
dc.creatorCigarran, Juan
dc.date1998-08-05
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dc.descriptionThe classical, vector space model for text retrieval is shown to give better results (up to 29% better in our experiments) if WordNet synsets are chosen as the indexing space, instead of word forms. This result is obtained for a manually disambiguated test collection (of queries and documents) derived from the Semcor semantic concordance. The sensitivity of retrieval performance to (automatic) disambiguation errors when indexing documents is also measured. Finally, it is observed that if queries are not disambiguated, indexing by synsets performs (at best) only as good as standard word indexing.
dc.description7 pages, LaTeX2e, 3 eps figures, uses epsfig, colacl.sty
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9808002
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9808002
dc.identifierProceedings of the COLING/ACL'98 Workshop on Usage of WordNet for NLP, Montreal, 1998
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/15878
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleIndexing with WordNet synsets can improve Text Retrieval
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