Moving Toward Web-Scale: Adapting Semantic Components for Use in Large Collections

Abstract

Some users’ information needs are very targeted, especially in domain-specific settings. The semantic components model supplements traditional full text and keyword indexing with a semantic description of subdocument content that does not necessarily correspond to structural elements in a document. The model extends typical query languages by allowing user queries to address subdocument components in addition to the whole document. We have evidence from a large interactive user study showing that semantic components can enhance document retrieval in a domainspecific digital library. We now propose to adapt the semantic components approach to improve its scalability for use in large document collections by allowing user indexing, by allowing multiple indexing instances per document, and by introducing an open semantic component schema. The proposed research will examine design issues and implementation options and provide preliminary evaluations of the effect of these adaptations on retrieval performance.

Contributors

Susan Price

Conference

Publication date: August 2007

Publication date (Print): August 2007

Pages: 1-6

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Department of Computer Science

P.O. Box 751

Portland State University

Portland, OR 97207, USA

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/FDIA2007.6

Copyright statement: © Susan Price. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2007, Glasgow

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Conference name: BCS IRSG Symposium: Future Directions in Information Access 2007

Conference acronym: FDIA

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Conference location: Glasgow

Conference date: 28-29 August 2007

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Future Directions in Information Access

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing