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An experiment in document retrieval using conceptual graphs

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In this paper an experiment using conceptual graphs to represent documents and queries is described. This paper is centred on the representation and answering language, a variant of simple CGs, and not on automatic indexing. Two important specificities of the experiment described in this paper are: first, it uses an existing general “ontology”, the thesaurus of RAMEAU, which is used in all the french universitary libraries; secondly, the CG indexation has been obtained from the existing indexation by adding a new “relational” level. The main goal of this paper is to show that it is possible to add, to general traditional document retrieval systems, a CG level, and that it is worthwhile to pay an additional cost, because, using CG for indexing documents and for representing queries, leads to significant improvements in the answers obtained.

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    D. Genest & M. Chein

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Dickson Lukose Harry Delugach Mary Keeler Leroy Searle John Sowa

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Genest, D., Chein, M. (1997). An experiment in document retrieval using conceptual graphs. In: Lukose, D., Delugach, H., Keeler, M., Searle, L., Sowa, J. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce's Dream. ICCS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027893

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