Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) systems are based on bag-of-words representation. This approach retrieves relevant; documents by lexical matching between query and document terms. Due to synonymy and polysemy, lexical methods produce imprecise or incomplete results. In this paper we present SENSE (SEmantic N-levels Search Engine), all IR system that tries to overcome the limitations of the ranked keyword approach, by introducing semantic levels which integrate (and not simply replace) the lexical level represented by keywords. Semantic levels provide information about word meanings, as described in a reference dictionary, and named entities. This paper focuses on the named entity level. Our aim is to prove that named entities are useful to improve retrieval performance. We exploit a model able to capture entity relationships, although they are not explicit in documents text. Experiments on CLEF dataset prove the effectiveness of our hypothesis.

Boosting a Semantic Search Engine by Named Entities

CAPUTO, ANNALINA;BASILE, PIERPAOLO;SEMERARO, Giovanni
2009-01-01

Abstract

Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) systems are based on bag-of-words representation. This approach retrieves relevant; documents by lexical matching between query and document terms. Due to synonymy and polysemy, lexical methods produce imprecise or incomplete results. In this paper we present SENSE (SEmantic N-levels Search Engine), all IR system that tries to overcome the limitations of the ranked keyword approach, by introducing semantic levels which integrate (and not simply replace) the lexical level represented by keywords. Semantic levels provide information about word meanings, as described in a reference dictionary, and named entities. This paper focuses on the named entity level. Our aim is to prove that named entities are useful to improve retrieval performance. We exploit a model able to capture entity relationships, although they are not explicit in documents text. Experiments on CLEF dataset prove the effectiveness of our hypothesis.
2009
978-3-642-04124-2
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