Utilizing Sub-topical Structure of Documents for Information Retrieval

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in the quantity of news, encyclopedic articles, blogs, forum and social networking posts etc. over the web. Some of these, such as the news and Wikipedia articles are carefully authored, edited and quality controlled, while others such as blogs and social networking posts are not. A document in the former category is often explicitly decomposed into paragraphs or sections to convey a specific aspect of the overall information in a more focused way. The sub-topic based organizational pattern is more implicit in a document of the later category, due to the absence of explicitly demarcated paragraphs. It is very important to gain insights into the sub-topical structure of documents to effectively manage and utilize the different aspects of information contained therein. The process of mining out the sub topical structure from a document is known as text segmentation.

Contributors

Debasis Ganguly

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Publication date: August 2011

Publication date (Print): August 2011

Page: 23

Affiliations

CNGL, School of Computing,

Dublin City University, Ireland

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/FDIA2011.6

Copyright statement: © Debasis Ganguly. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Fourth BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2011), Koblenz, Germany

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Conference name: Fourth BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2011)

Conference acronym: FDIA

Conference number: 4

Conference location: Koblenz, Germany

Conference date: 31 August 2011

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2011)

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing