Information retrieval with a simplified conceptual graph-like representation

Sonia Ordoñez-Salinas, Alexander Gelbukh

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Abstract

We argue for that taking into account semantic relations between words in the text can improve information retrieval performance. We implemented the process of information retrieval with simplified Conceptual Graph-like structures and compare the results with those of the vector space model. Our semantic representation, combined with a small simplification of the vector space model, gives better results. In order to build Conceptual Graph-like representation, we have developed a grammar based on the dependency formalism and the standard defined for Conceptual Graphs (CG). We used noun pre-modifiers and noun post-modifiers, as well as verb frames, extracted from VerbNet, as a source of definition of semantic roles. VerbNet was chosen since its definitions of semantic roles have much in common with the CG standard. We experimented on a subset of the ImageClef 2008 collection of titles and annotations of medical images.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence - 9th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2010, Proceedings
Pages92-104
Number of pages13
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event9th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2010 - Pachuca, Mexico
Duration: 8 Nov 201013 Nov 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume6437 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2010
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityPachuca
Period8/11/1013/11/10

Keywords

  • Conceptual Graph
  • Dependency Grammar
  • Information Retrieval

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