Automatic Extraction of Useful Facet Hierarchies from Text Databases

Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users locate items of interest in such databases. Faceted interfaces represent a new powerful paradigm that proved to be a successful complement to keyword searching. Thus far, the identification of the facets was either a manual procedure, or relied on apriori knowledge of the facets that can potentially appear in the underlying collection. In this paper, we present an unsupervised technique for automatic extraction of facets useful for browsing text databases. In particular, we observe, through a pilot study, that facet terms rarely appear in text documents, showing that we need external resources to identify useful facet terms. For this, we first identify important phrases in each document. Then, we expand each phrase with "context" phrases using external resources, such as WordNet and Wikipedia, causi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
• Keywords: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Database, ICDE 2008, Techniques Produce Facets, Useful Facet Terms