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Information Retrieval with a Simplified Conceptual Graph-Like Representation

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We argue for that taking into account semantic relations between words in the text can improve information retrieval performance. We implemented the process of information retrieval with simplified Conceptual Graph-like structures and compare the results with those of the vector space model. Our semantic representation, combined with a small simplification of the vector space model, gives better results. In order to build Conceptual Graph-like representation, we have developed a grammar based on the dependency formalism and the standard defined for Conceptual Graphs (CG). We used noun pre-modifiers and noun post-modifiers, as well as verb frames, extracted from VerbNet, as a source of definition of semantic roles. VerbNet was chosen since its definitions of semantic roles have much in common with the CG standard. We experimented on a subset of the ImageClef 2008 collection of titles and annotations of medical images.

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    Sonia Ordoñez-Salinas

  2. Center for Computing Research (CIC), National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico

    Alexander Gelbukh

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    Grigori Sidorov

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Ordoñez-Salinas, S., Gelbukh, A. (2010). Information Retrieval with a Simplified Conceptual Graph-Like Representation. In: Sidorov, G., Hernández Aguirre, A., Reyes García, C.A. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. MICAI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6437. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16761-4_9

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