The effect of lexical relationships on the quality of query clusters

Chandrani Sinha Ray*, Dion Hoe Lian Goh, Schubert Foo

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Abstract

Query clustering helps users frame an optimum query to obtain relevant documents. The content-based approach to query clustering has been criticized since queries are usually very short and consist of a wide variety of keywords, making this method ineffective in finding clusters. Clustering based on similar search results URLs has also performed inadequately due to the large number of distinct URLs. Our previous work has demonstrated that a hybrid approach combining the two is effective in generating good clusters. This study aims to extend our work by using lexical knowledge from WordNet to examine the effect on the quality of query clusters. Our results show that surprisingly, the use of lexical knowledge does not produce any significant improvement in quality, thus demonstrating the robustness of the hybrid clustering approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Libraries
Subtitle of host publicationAchievements, Challenges and Opportunities - 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages223-233
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)3540493751, 9783540493754
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: Nov 27 2006Nov 30 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4312 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period11/27/0611/30/06

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • Collaborative querying
  • Query clustering
  • WordNet

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