72 research outputs found
A derivational rephrasing experiment for question answering
In Knowledge Management, variations in information expressions have proven a
real challenge. In particular, classical semantic relations (e.g. synonymy) do
not connect words with different parts-of-speech. The method proposed tries to
address this issue. It consists in building a derivational resource from a
morphological derivation tool together with derivational guidelines from a
dictionary in order to store only correct derivatives. This resource, combined
with a syntactic parser, a semantic disambiguator and some derivational
patterns, helps to reformulate an original sentence while keeping the initial
meaning in a convincing manner This approach has been evaluated in three
different ways: the precision of the derivatives produced from a lemma; its
ability to provide well-formed reformulations from an original sentence,
preserving the initial meaning; its impact on the results coping with a real
issue, ie a question answering task . The evaluation of this approach through a
question answering system shows the pros and cons of this system, while
foreshadowing some interesting future developments
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Hierarchical ontology graph for solving semantic issues in decision support systems
In the context of the development of Al algorithms in language processing, tremendous progress has been made in knowledge abstraction and semantic reasoning. However, for answering the questions with complex logic, AI system is still in an early stage. Hierarchical ontology graph is proposed to establish analysis threads for the complex question in order to facilitate AI system to further support in business decision making. The study of selecting the appropriate corpora is intended to improve the data asset management of enterprise
topicmodels: An R Package for Fitting Topic Models
Topic models allow the probabilistic modeling of term frequency occurrences in documents. The fitted model can be used to estimate the similarity between documents as well as between a set of specified keywords using an additional layer of latent variables which are referred to as topics. The R package topicmodels provides basic infrastructure for fitting topic models based on data structures from the text mining package tm. The package includes interfaces to two algorithms for fitting topic models: the variational expectation-maximization algorithm provided by David M. Blei and co-authors and an algorithm using Gibbs sampling by Xuan-Hieu Phan and co-authors.
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Ontology Based Query Expansion with a Probabilistic Retrieval Model
This paper examines the use of ontologies for defining query context. The information retrieval system used is based on the probabilistic retrieval model. We extend the use of relevance feedback (RFB) and pseudo-relevance feedback (PF) query expansion techniques using information from a news domain ontology. The aim is to assess the impact of the ontology on the query expansion results with respect to recall and precision. We also tested the results for varying the relevance feedback parameters (number of terms or number of documents). The factors which influence the success of ontology based query expansion are outlined. Our findings show that ontology based query expansion has had mixed success. The use of the ontology has vastly increased the number of relevant documents retrieved, however, we conclude that for both types of query expansion, the PF results are better than the RFB results
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