Despite its intuitive appeal, the hypothesis that retrieval at the level of “concepts” should outperform purely term-based approaches remains unverified empirically. In addit...
With the variety of human life, people are interested in various matters for each one’s unique reason, for which a machine maybe a better counselor than a human. This paper prop...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
The present work aims at discovering new associations between medical concepts to be exploited as input in retrieval and indexing. Material and Methods: Association rules method is...
The Web is the richest source of information and knowledge. Unfortunately the current structure of Web pages makes it difficult for users to retrieve the information or knowledge ...