Query expansion of zero-hit subject searches: Using a thesaurus in conjunction with NLP techniques

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7489 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 433-438

  Kapidakis, Sarantos ^a   Mastora, Anna ^a   Peponakis, Manolis ^b  

^a IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

NLP techniques; Query expansion; Thesaurus; Zero hit queries

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL SOURCES; KEYPOINTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP TECHNIQUES; QUERY EXPANSION; QUERY TERMS; ZERO-HIT QUERIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

THESAURI;

EID: 84867679550     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33290-6_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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