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Joining automatic query expansion based on thesaurus and word sense disambiguation using WordNet
2008
International journal of computer applications in technology
The selection of the most appropriate sense of an ambiguous word in a certain context is one of the main problems in Information Retrieval (IR). For this task, it is usually necessary to count on a semantic source, that is, linguistic resources like dictionaries, thesaurus, etc. Using a methodology based on simulation under a vector space model, we show that the use of automatic query expansion and disambiguation of the sense of the words permits to improve retrieval effectiveness. As shown in
doi:10.1504/ijcat.2008.022422
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