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Massive Query Expansion by Exploiting Graph Properties Joan Guisado-Gámez Josep Lluís Larriba Pey David Domínguez Sal

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Massive Query Expansion by Exploiting Graph Properties. Joan Guisado-Gámez. Josep Lluís Larriba Pey David Domínguez Sal. Problem in Information Retrieval. Query = “colored Volkswagen beetles”. Brief Introduction. Process of transforming Q O into Q E - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Massive Query Expansionby

Exploiting Graph Properties

Joan Guisado-GámezJosep Lluís Larriba PeyDavid Domínguez Sal

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PROBLEM IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Query = “colored Volkswagen beetles”

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BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Process of transforming QO into QE

Detect expansion features (terms/phrases)

What kind of expansion features?

How to obtain the expansion features?

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TOPOLOGICAL QUERY EXPANSION

Query = “colored Volkswagen beetles”

Context = “any model of Volkswagen beetles car of any color and year”

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EXPANSION FEATURES

Most important extension Features:

“Volkswagen beetle”, “Volkswagen fusca”, “VW type 1”, “Volkswagen 1200”, “Volkswagen bug”, “Volkswagen super bug”, “VW bug”,”VW Käfer”

“Volkswagen new Beetle”

“Baja bug”

“Volkswagen group”, “VW group”

H-Shifter, engine, car, automobile,….

Query = “colored Volkswagen beetles”

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SOME RESULTSQuery = “colored Volkswagen beetles”

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CONCLUSIONS

Achieves good results allowing to identify new concepts.

Precision improves up to 27%

Orthogonal to linguistic techniques.

Outperforms pseudo-relevance feedback techniques.

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