Analysis and Performance of Morphological Query Expansion and Language-Filtering Words on Basque Web Searching

Morphological query expansion and language-filtering words have proved to be valid methods when searching the web for content in Basque via APIs of commercial search engines, as the implementation of these methods in recent IR and web-as-corpus tools shows, but no real analysis has been carried out to ascertain the degree of improvement, apart from a comparison of recall and precision using a classical web search engine and measured in terms of hit counts. This paper deals with a more theoretical study that confirms the validity of the combination of both methods. We have measured the increase in recall obtained by morphological query expansion and the increase in precision and loss in recall produced by language-filtering-words, but not only by searching the web directly and looking at the hit counts

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Igor Leturia, Antton Gurrutxaga, Nerea Areta, Eli Pociello
• Keywords: Education, Hit Counts, LREC 2008, Morphological Query Expansion, Search Engine