The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval
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Peter G. Anick
Abstract
We present a linguistic method for the automatic construction of terminological feedback for use in interactive information retrieval. The method exploits the tendency for key domain concepts within result sets to participate in families of semantically related lexical compounds. We show how lexical dispersion may be used to identify terms that can serve in the role of “facets”, broad categories that organize domain concepts into separate hierarchies. The phrases in which these terms occur serve to provide a set of attributes, specializations, related concepts, etc., for the so-identified facet terms. We investigate the effect of a number of parameters on the output, with the aim of providing a relevant set of feedback categories while minimizing run-time overhead.
Abstract
We present a linguistic method for the automatic construction of terminological feedback for use in interactive information retrieval. The method exploits the tendency for key domain concepts within result sets to participate in families of semantically related lexical compounds. We show how lexical dispersion may be used to identify terms that can serve in the role of “facets”, broad categories that organize domain concepts into separate hierarchies. The phrases in which these terms occur serve to provide a set of attributes, specializations, related concepts, etc., for the so-identified facet terms. We investigate the effect of a number of parameters on the output, with the aim of providing a relevant set of feedback categories while minimizing run-time overhead.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vi
- Introduction viii
- A graph-based approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keyword clusters 1
- The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval 29
- Automatic term detection 53
- Incremental extraction of domain-specific terms from online text resources 89
- Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine 111
- Searching for and identifying conceptual relationships via a corpus-based approach to a Terminological Knowledge Base (CTKB) 127
- Qualitative terminology extraction 149
- General considerations on bilingual terminology extraction 167
- Detection of synonymy links between terms 185
- Extracting useful terms from parenthetical expressions by combining simple rules and statistical measures 209
- Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons 225
- Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval 245
- Term extraction using a similarity-based approach 261
- Extracting knowledge-rich contexts for terminography 279
- Experimental evaluation of ranking and selection methods in term extraction 303
- Corpus-based extension of a terminological semantic lexicon 327
- Term extraction for automatic abstracting 353
- About the contributors 371
- Subject Index 377
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vi
- Introduction viii
- A graph-based approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keyword clusters 1
- The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval 29
- Automatic term detection 53
- Incremental extraction of domain-specific terms from online text resources 89
- Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine 111
- Searching for and identifying conceptual relationships via a corpus-based approach to a Terminological Knowledge Base (CTKB) 127
- Qualitative terminology extraction 149
- General considerations on bilingual terminology extraction 167
- Detection of synonymy links between terms 185
- Extracting useful terms from parenthetical expressions by combining simple rules and statistical measures 209
- Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons 225
- Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval 245
- Term extraction using a similarity-based approach 261
- Extracting knowledge-rich contexts for terminography 279
- Experimental evaluation of ranking and selection methods in term extraction 303
- Corpus-based extension of a terminological semantic lexicon 327
- Term extraction for automatic abstracting 353
- About the contributors 371
- Subject Index 377
