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Query Expansion with ConceptNet and WordNet: An Intrinsic Comparison

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2006)

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This paper compares the utilization of ConceptNet and WordNet in query expansion. Spreading activation selects candidate terms for query expansion from these two resources. Three measures including discrimination ability, concept diversity, and retrieval performance are used for comparisons. The topics and document collections in the ad hoc track of TREC-6, TREC-7 and TREC-8 are adopted in the experiments. The results show that ConceptNet and WordNet are complementary. Queries expanded with WordNet have higher discrimination ability. In contrast, queries expanded with ConceptNet have higher concept diversity. The performance of queries expanded by selecting the candidate terms from ConceptNet and WordNet outperforms that of queries without expansion, and queries expanded with a single resource.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai & Hsin-Hsi Chen

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, 117543, Singapore

    Hwee Tou Ng

  2. Institute for Infocomm Research, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, 119613, Singapore

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  3. Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore

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Hsu, MH., Tsai, MF., Chen, HH. (2006). Query Expansion with ConceptNet and WordNet: An Intrinsic Comparison. In: Ng, H.T., Leong, MK., Kan, MY., Ji, D. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11880592_1

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