A review of ontology based query expansion

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 866-886

  Bhogal, J ^a,b   Macfarlane, A ^a,b   Smith, P ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Information retrieval; Ontologies; Query expansion; Relevance feedback; WordNet

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

QUERY EXPANSION; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; WORDNET;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 33947225199     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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