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In this paper we describe a mechanism to improve Information Retrieval (IR) on the web. The method is based on Formal Concepts Analysis (FCA) that it is makes semantical relations during the queries, and allows a reorganizing, in the shape…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Abderrahim El Qadi , Driss Aboutajedine , Yassine Ennouary

Personal ontologies have been proposed as a means to support the semantic management of user information. Assuming that a personal ontology system is in use, new tools have to be developed at user interface level to exploit the enhanced…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-08-22 Jenny Rompa , Giorgos Lepouras , Costas Vassilakis , Christos Tryfonopoulos

Existing conversational models are handled by a database(DB) and API based systems. However, very often users' questions require information that cannot be handled by such systems. Nonetheless, answers to these questions are available in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Raja Kumar

Finding concepts in large clinical ontologies can be challenging when queries use different vocabularies. A search algorithm that overcomes this problem is useful in applications such as concept normalisation and ontology matching, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Duy-Hoa Ngo , Madonna Kemp , Donna Truran , Bevan Koopman , Alejandro Metke-Jimenez

Within the documentary system domain, the integration of thesauri for indexing and retrieval information steps is usual. In libraries, documents own rich descriptive information made by librarians, under descriptive notice based on Rameau…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-10-06 Marie-Noëlle Bessagnet , Eric Kergosien , Mauro Gaio

The modern geographic information retrieval technology is based on quantitative models and methods. The semantic information in web documents and queries cannot be effectively represented, leading to information lost or misunderstanding so…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Yong Gao , Lei Liu , Xing Lin , Yu Liu

Query Understanding is a semantic search method that can classify tokens in a customer's search query to entities such as Product, Brand, etc. This method can overcome the limitations of bag-of-words methods but requires an ontology. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Aliasgar Kutiyanawala , Prateek Verma , Zheng , Yan

In this paper, we introduce a novel interpreting framework that learns an interpretable model based on an ontology-based sampling technique to explain agnostic prediction models. Different from existing approaches, our algorithm considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , Han Hu , Anuja Badeti , David Newman , Dejing Dou

Keyword based search engines have problems with term ambiguity and vocabulary mismatch. In this paper, we propose a query expansion technique that enriches queries expressed as keywords and short natural language descriptions. We present a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Joan Guisado-Gámez , David Dominguez-Sal , Josep-LLuis Larriba-Pey

Semantic Web is, without a doubt, gaining momentum in both industry and academia. The word "Semantic" refers to "meaning" - a semantic web is a web of meaning. In this fast changing and result oriented practical world, gone are the days…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Siddharth Gupta , Narina Thakur

The rapid growth in the volume, variety, and velocity of geospatial data has created data ecosystems that are highly distributed, heterogeneous, and semantically inconsistent. Existing data catalogs, portals, and infrastructures still rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ruixiang Liu , Zhenlong Li , Ali Khosravi Kazazi

While contemporary semantic search systems offer to improve classical keyword-based search, they are not always adequate for complex domain specific information needs. The domain of prescription drug abuse, for example, requires knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Delroy Cameron , Amit Sheth , Nishita Jaykumar , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Gaurish Anand , Gary A. Smith

The Visual Object Information Retrieval (VOIR) system described in this paper implements an image retrieval approach that combines two layers, the conceptual and the visual layer. It uses terms from a textual thesaurus to represent the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Jose Torres , Luis Paulo Reis

While infographics have become a powerful medium for communicating data-driven stories, authoring them from scratch remains challenging, especially for novice users. Retrieving relevant exemplars from a large corpus can provide design…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jing Xu , Jiarui Hu , Zhihao Shuai , Yiyun Chen , Weikai Yang

With the advent of semantic web, various tools and techniques have been introduced for presenting and organizing knowledge. Concept hierarchies are one such technique which gained significant attention due to its usefulness in creating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-30 V. S. Anoop , S. Asharaf , P. Deepak

As todays world grows with the technology on the other hand it seems to be small with the World Wide Web. With the use of Internet more and more information can be search from the web. When Users fires a query they want relevancy in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay , Sajeeda Shikalgar

Contextual retrieval is a critical technique for today's search engines in terms of facilitating queries and returning relevant information. This paper reports on the development and evaluation of a system designed to tackle some of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Dilip K. Limbu , Andy M. Connor , Russel Pears , Stephen G. MacDonell

Text-to-image retrieval is a fundamental task in vision-language learning, yet in real-world scenarios it is often challenged by short and underspecified user queries. Such queries are typically only one or two words long, rendering them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jianglin Lu , Simon Jenni , Kushal Kafle , Jing Shi , Handong Zhao , Yun Fu

Measurement of the semantic relatedness or likeness between terms, words, or text data plays an important role in different applications dealing with textual data such as knowledge acquisition, recommender system, and natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Le Ngoc Luyen , Marie-Hélène Abel , Philippe Gouspillou

Keyword-based searches are today's standard in digital libraries. Yet, complex retrieval scenarios like in scientific knowledge bases, need more sophisticated access paths. Although each document somewhat contributes to a domain's body of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hermann Kroll , Pascal Sackhoff , Timo Breuer , Ralf Schenkel , Wolf-Tilo Balke