Title :
Using WordNet and lexical operators to improve Internet searches
Author :
Moldovan, Dan I. ; Mihalcea, Rada
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX, USA
Abstract :
A natural language interface system for an Internet search engine shows substantial increases in the precision of query results and the percentage of queries answered correctly. The system expands queries based on a word-sense-disambiguation method and postprocesses retrieved documents to extract only the parts relevant to a query
Keywords :
Internet; information retrieval; natural language interfaces; search engines; word processing; Internet search engine; Internet searches; WordNet; lexical operators; natural language interface system; postprocesses; retrieved documents; word-sense-disambiguation method; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Data mining; Dictionaries; Information retrieval; Internet; Natural languages; Search engines; System testing; Web search;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4236.815847
