Word Sense Disambiguation for Information Retrieval

نویسندگان

  • Özlem Uzuner
  • Boris Katz
  • Deniz Yuret
چکیده

Motivation: Documents related to an IR query sometimes contain only the synonyms of the query words instead of the query words themselves. A simple IR system with no knowledge of synonyms fails to recognize the relevance of these documents to the query. So, we can improve recall of IR systems by considering the synonyms of the query words as a part of the IR query. However, only relevant synonyms of the query words in the given context contribute useful information to the query. We can identify these relevant synonyms with the help of a disambiguation algorithm.

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تاریخ انتشار 1999