Abstract. Query expansion has received extensive attention in information retrieval community. Although semantic based query expansion appears to be promising in improving retrieva...
This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
We examine the effect of incorporating gaze-based attention feedback from the user on personalizing the search process. Employing eye tracking data, we keep track of document part...
Query expansion terms are often used to enhance original query formulations in document retrieval. Such terms are usually selected from the entire documents or from windows or pas...
In this paper, we address a novel method of Web query expansion by using WordNet and TSN. WordNet is an online lexical dictionary which describes word relationships in three dimens...