Previous works on automatic query clustering most generate a flat, un-nested partition of query terms. In this work, we are pursuing to organize query terms into a hierarchical s...
Automatic annotation of documents with controlled vocabulary terms (descriptors) from a conceptual thesaurus is not only useful for document indexing and retrieval. The mapping of...
Semantic similarity is a key issue in many computational tasks. This paper goes into the development and evaluation of two common ways of automatically calculating the semantic si...
Yves Peirsman, Simon De Deyne, Kris Heylen, Dirk G...
Background: Although there are a large number of thesauri for the biomedical domain many of them lack coverage in terms and their variant forms. Automatic thesaurus construction b...
This paper presents an interactive query expansion method with association thesaurus, which is mined from the ‘selected web pages’ of users in the query logs. The ‘selected w...