Towards a Sense Based Document Representation for Internet Information Retrieval

We describe an attempt to use word sense as an alternate text representation within an information retrieval system in order to enhance retrieval effectiveness. A performance comparison between a term and sense based system was carried out indicating increased retrieval effectiveness using a sense based representation. These increases come about by using a retrieval strategy designed to down rank documents containing query terms identified as being used in an infrequent sense.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: TREC
• Authors: Christopher Stokoe, John Tait
• Keywords: Retrieval Effectiveness, Sense Based Representation, TREC 2003, TREC 2008, Word Sense