Assessing the Effectiveness of LSI in Approaching the Intention of a User's Query

Documentsretrieved in responseto a user's query shouldreflect the intention of the user. Keyword searchesare not sufficient to accomplishthis task. This paper considersLatent SemanticIndexing(LSI) as possiblesolution. LSIis consideredin the contextof a large set of WorldBankdocuments.LSIis shownto be usefulin this regard, but not a completesolution. Additional, domainspecific, informationwouldbe neededas well.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: FLAIRS
• Authors: Massoud Moussavi, Robert Najlis
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, FLAIRS 2001, Keyword Searchesare, Paper ConsidersLatent, User's Query