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| Title | Arabic Query Expansion Using Interactive Word Sense Disambiguation |
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| Authors | Riyad Al-Shalabi, Ghassan Kanaan, Mustafa Yaseen, Bashar Al-Sarayreh and Nada A. Al-Naji |
| Abstract | Word sense ambiguity is widely spread in all natural languages; a word may carry several distinct meanings. Human can figure out the suitable meaning according to the context in which the word occurs. The Arabic language is highly polysemous; in many situations we find it extremely necessary to disambiguate the word senses. This paper studies and compares the performance of a search engine before and after expanding the query through Interactive Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). We found that expanding polysemous query terms by adding more specific synonyms will narrow the search into the specific targeted request and thus causes both precision and recall to increase; on the other hand, expanding the query with a more general (polysemous) synonym will broaden the search which would cause the precision to decrease. |
| Topics | Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, speech dictation, translation, summarisation, web services, semantic web, etc.), Exploitation of LRs in different types of interfaces (dialog systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, etc.), LRs for linguistic research in human-machine communication |
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Arabic Query Expansion Using Interactive Word Sense Disambiguation |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ALSHALABI09.54, author = {Riyad Al-Shalabi, Ghassan Kanaan, Mustafa Yaseen, Bashar Al-Sarayreh and Nada A. Al-Naji}, title = {Arabic Query Expansion Using Interactive Word Sense Disambiguation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools}, year = {2009}, month = {April}, date = {22-23}, address = {Cairo, Egypt}, editor = {Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaard}, publisher = {The MEDAR Consortium}, isbn = {2-9517408-5-9}, language = {english} } |