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An evaluation of the incorporation of a semantic network into a multidimensional retrieval engine

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This paper describes a new method for incorporating a hierarchical category dimension into an Information Retrieval framework. The approach is to use the synonym sets and the hyponym ("is-a") relations defined within Wordnet in order to derive a conceptual hierarchical category dimension. The hierarchical nature of a category dimension not only provides an overview of a set of documents but also facilitates the effectiveness and the efficiency of searching documents. An evaluation is performed on two different types of models and the multidimensional approach shows a significant reduction in the number of page accesses over a large document collection.

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    CIKM '03: Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
    November 2003
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    ISBN:1581137230
    DOI:10.1145/956863
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