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Lexical Co-Occurrence and Contextual Window-Based Approach With Semantic Similarity for Query Expansion

Lexical Co-Occurrence and Contextual Window-Based Approach With Semantic Similarity for Query Expansion
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Author(s): Jagendra Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)and Rakesh Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 24
Source title: Information Retrieval and Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5191-1.ch070

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Abstract

Query expansion (QE) is an efficient method for enhancing the efficiency of information retrieval system. In this work, we try to capture the limitations of pseudo-feedback based QE approach and propose a hybrid approach for enhancing the efficiency of feedback based QE by combining corpus-based, contextual based information of query terms, and semantic based knowledge of query terms. First of all, this paper explores the use of different corpus-based lexical co-occurrence approaches to select an optimal combination of query terms from a pool of terms obtained using pseudo-feedback based QE. Next, we explore semantic similarity approach based on word2vec for ranking the QE terms obtained from top pseudo-feedback documents. Further, we combine co-occurrence statistics, contextual window statistics, and semantic similarity based approaches together to select the best expansion terms for query reformulation. The experiments were performed on FIRE ad-hoc and TREC-3 benchmark datasets. The statistics of our proposed experimental results show significant improvement over baseline method.

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