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2  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions

3  Simple search  Query: keywords  Find documents which have those keywords  Rank them based on query  Result: ranked documents

4  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions

5  Query length  Correlated with performance in the search task  Query is small collection of keywords  Hard to find relevant documents only based on 2,3 words  Solution  Query reformulation  Query expansion

6  Query Expansion  Selection of new terms Relevant documents WordNet (Synonym, hyponym, …) … Disambiguation

7  Query Expansion  Selection of new terms  Weighting those terms

8  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions

9  Probabilistic Methods  What is the probability that this document is relevant to this query? The event that the document is judged as relevant to query The document description

10  Language Models  What is the probability of generating query Q, given document d, with language model M d. Maximum likelihood estimate of the probability Maximum likelihood estimate of the probability

11  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions

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13  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions

14  Searching on google

15  Searching on google I want all of these searches show the same results, since they have same meaning, and it is the intent of the user to know all of them, when searching for one.

16  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions  Query Expansion  Query Expansion(Tasks to Decide)  Document Ranking

17  How?  New Semantic Query Expansion Method  New Semantic Document Ranking Method

18  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions  Query Expansion  Query Expansion(Tasks to Decide)  Document Ranking

19  Example: “Gain Weight”  Desirable keywords in expanded query: “Gain, weight, muscle, mass, fat” Gain weight Muscle Mass Fat What are these relations?

20  Digging in dbpedia and wikipedia

21  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions  Query Expansion  Query Expansion(Tasks to Decide)  Document Ranking

22  How to map query phrases into Wikipedia components?  Which properties and their related entitles should be selected?  Can those properties be selected automatically for each phrase? Or should it be fixed for the whole algorithm?  If it’s automatic, what is the process?

23  Is dbpedia and Wikipedia enough to decide, or should we use other ontologies?  How should we weight the extracted entities (terms, senses) in order to select the expanded query among them.

24  Search Process  Query Processing  Document Ranking  Search Result Clustering and Diversification  What is the Goal  Contributions  Query Expansion  Query Expansion(Tasks to Decide)  Document Ranking

25  Are the documents annotated?  Yes Rank documents using the extracted entitles from the query expansion phase.  No Rank the documents based on the semantics of the expanded query other than the terms or phrases. Define probabilities over senses other than terms in the query and documents.

26  Are the documents annotated?  Yes Rank documents using the extracted entitles from the query expansion phase.  No Rank the documents based on the semantics of the expanded query other than the terms or phrases. Define probabilities over senses other than terms in the query and documents. Documents are not annotated, so how?

27  Semantic Similarity between two non-annotated documents ( the expanded query and the document)  There are papers on using WordNet ontology, with “topic specific PageRank algorithm”, for similarity of two sentences (phrase or word).  The application on information retrieval has not been seen yet.

28  Semantic Similarity between two non-annotated documents ( the expanded query and the document)  There are papers on using WordNet ontology, with “topic specific PageRank algorithm”, for similarity of two sentences (phrase or word).  The application on information retrieval has not been seen yet. Find the aspects of different algorithms which are more beneficial in the information retrieval domain (two large documents)

29  Semantic Similarity between two non-annotated documents ( the expanded query and the document)  There are papers on using WordNet ontology, with “topic specific PageRank algorithm”, for similarity of two sentences (phrase or word).  The application on information retrieval has not been seen yet. More reasonable is to apply the algorithm on dbpedia (instead of WordNet) in the entity domain (instead of sense domain)

30  Applying a search result clustering and diversification, based on the different semantics of the query.

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