scholarly journals A Query Understanding Framework for Earth Data Discovery

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1127
Author(s):  
Yun Li ◽  
Yongyao Jiang ◽  
Justin C. Goldstein ◽  
Lewis J. Mcgibbney ◽  
Chaowei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Data Discovery ◽  
Concept Recognition ◽  
Semantic Query ◽  
User Query ◽  
Query Understanding ◽  
Search Intent

One longstanding complication with Earth data discovery involves understanding a user’s search intent from the input query. Most of the geospatial data portals use keyword-based match to search data. Little attention has focused on the spatial and temporal information from a query or understanding the query with ontology. No research in the geospatial domain has investigated user queries in a systematic way. Here, we propose a query understanding framework and apply it to fill the gap by better interpreting a user’s search intent for Earth data search engines and adopting knowledge that was mined from metadata and user query logs. The proposed query understanding tool contains four components: spatial and temporal parsing; concept recognition; Named Entity Recognition (NER); and, semantic query expansion. Spatial and temporal parsing detects the spatial bounding box and temporal range from a query. Concept recognition isolates clauses from free text and provides the search engine phrases instead of a list of words. Name entity recognition detects entities from the query, which inform the search engine to query the entities detected. The semantic query expansion module expands the original query by adding synonyms and acronyms to phrases in the query that was discovered from Web usage data and metadata. The four modules interact to parse a user’s query from multiple perspectives, with the goal of understanding the consumer’s quest intent for data. As a proof-of-concept, the framework is applied to oceanographic data discovery. It is demonstrated that the proposed framework accurately captures a user’s intent.

scholarly journals Semantically-Enriched Search Engine for Geoportals: A Case Study with ArcGIS Online

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Gengchen Mai ◽  
Krzysztof Janowicz ◽  
Sathya Prasad ◽  
Meilin Shi ◽  
Ling Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Query Expansion ◽  
Scoring Function ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Document Similarity ◽  
Geographic Information Retrieval ◽  
Limited Ability ◽  
Semantic Query ◽  
Implicit Information

Abstract. Many geoportals such as ArcGIS Online are established with the goal of improving geospatial data reusability and achieving intelligent knowledge discovery. However, according to previous research, most of the existing geoportals adopt Lucene-based techniques to achieve their core search functionality, which has a limited ability to capture the user’s search intentions. To better understand a user’s search intention, query expansion can be used to enrich the user’s query by adding semantically similar terms. In the context of geoportals and geographic information retrieval, we advocate the idea of semantically enriching a user’s query from both geospatial and thematic perspectives. In the geospatial aspect, we propose to enrich a query by using both place partonomy and distance decay. In terms of the thematic aspect, concept expansion and embedding-based document similarity are used to infer the implicit information hidden in a user’s query. This semantic query expansion framework is implemented as a semantically-enriched search engine using ArcGIS Online as a case study. A benchmark dataset is constructed to evaluate the proposed framework. Our evaluation results show that the proposed semantic query expansion framework is very effective in capturing a user’s search intention and significantly outperforms a well-established baseline – Lucene’s practical scoring function – with more than 3.0 increments in DCG@K (K=3,5,10).

scholarly journals Ontology-Based Metasearch Engine in Electronics Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 272-277
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Web Search ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Semantic Query ◽  
User Query ◽  
Metasearch Engine

Paper The goal of search engines is to return accurate and complete results. Satisfying concrete user information needs becomes more and more difficult because of inability in it complete explicit specification and short comes of keyword-based searching and indexing. General search engines have indexed millions of web resources and often return thousands of results to the user query (most of them often inadequate). To increase result’s precession, users sometimes choose search engines, specialized in searching concrete domain, personalized or semantic search. A grand variety of specialized search engines may be found (and used) in the internet, but no one may guarantee finding of existing in the web and needed for the concrete user resources. In this paper we present our research on building a meta-search engine that uses domain and user profile ontologies, as well as information (or metadata), directly extracted from web sites to improve search result quality. We state main requirements to the search engine for students, PHD students and scientists, propose a conceptual model and discuss approaches of it practical realization. Our prototype metasearch engine first perform interactive semantic query refinement and then, using refined query, it automatically generate several search queries, sends them to different digital libraries and web search engines, augments and ranks returned results, using ontologically represented domain and user metadata. For testing our model, we develop domain ontologies in the electronic domain. We will use ontological terminology representation to propose recommendations for query disambiguation, and to ensure knowledge for reranking the returned results. We also present some partial initial implementations query disambiguation strategies and testing results.

Semantic Query Expansion using Cluster Based Domain Ontologies

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suruchi Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Query Expansion ◽  
Domain Ontology ◽  
Search Query ◽  
Semantic Query ◽  
Search Results ◽  
The Past ◽  
User Query ◽  
Similar Cluster ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
The Web

Information on the web has been growing at a very rapid pace and has become quite voluminous over the past few years. The users search query on the web could not retrieve sufficient relevant documents and is responsible for low precision of search results. To improve the precision of search results, an algorithm is proposed in this paper for semantic query expansion using domain ontology based on clustered web query sessions. Domain ontology is created for each cluster of query sessions. The input query of a user is used to select the most similar cluster. The domain ontology of the selected cluster is used to suggest the related concepts for query expansion and the expanded query is used for information retrieval to test its effectiveness. The experiment was conducted on the captured user query sessions on the web and results prove the efficacy of the proposed approach.

Developing a RadLex-based Named Entity Recognition Tool for Mining Textual Radiology Reports (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shintaro Tsuji ◽  
Andrew Wen ◽  
Naoki Takahashi ◽  
Hongjian Zhang ◽  
Katsuhiko Ogasawara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Clinical Text ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Radiology Reports ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
F Measure

BACKGROUND Named entity recognition (NER) plays an important role in extracting the features of descriptions for mining free-text radiology reports. However, the performance of existing NER tools is limited because the number of entities depends on its dictionary lookup. Especially, the recognition of compound terms is very complicated because there are a variety of patterns. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study is to develop and evaluate a NER tool concerned with compound terms using the RadLex for mining free-text radiology reports. METHODS We leveraged the clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) to develop customized pipelines using both RadLex and SentiWordNet (a general-purpose dictionary, GPD). We manually annotated 400 of radiology reports for compound terms (Cts) in noun phrases and used them as the gold standard for the performance evaluation (precision, recall, and F-measure). Additionally, we also created a compound-term-enhanced dictionary (CtED) by analyzing false negatives (FNs) and false positives (FPs), and applied it for another 100 radiology reports for validation. We also evaluated the stem terms of compound terms, through defining two measures: an occurrence ratio (OR) and a matching ratio (MR). RESULTS The F-measure of the cTAKES+RadLex+GPD was 32.2% (Precision 92.1%, Recall 19.6%) and that of combined the CtED was 67.1% (Precision 98.1%, Recall 51.0%). The OR indicated that stem terms of “effusion”, "node", "tube", and "disease" were used frequently, but it still lacks capturing Cts. The MR showed that 71.9% of stem terms matched with that of ontologies and RadLex improved about 22% of the MR from the cTAKES default dictionary. The OR and MR revealed that the characteristics of stem terms would have the potential to help generate synonymous phrases using ontologies. CONCLUSIONS We developed a RadLex-based customized pipeline for parsing radiology reports and demonstrated that CtED and stem term analysis has the potential to improve dictionary-based NER performance toward expanding vocabularies.

scholarly journals INDONESIAN-TRANSLATED HADITH CONTENT WEIGHTING IN PSEUDO-RELEVANCE FEEDBACK QUERY EXPANSION

Kursor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivanda Zevi Amalia ◽  
Akbar Noto Ponco Bimantoro ◽  
Agus Zainal Arifin ◽  
Maryamah Faisol ◽  
Rarasmaya Indraswari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Query Expansion ◽  
Retrieval System ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Retrieval Process ◽  
Retrieval Performance ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Story Content ◽  
Test Scenarios

In general, hadith consists of isnad and matan (content). Matan can be separated into several components for example a story, main content, and some additional information. Other texts besides main content, such as isnad and story can interfere the retrieval process of relevant documents because most users typically use simple queries. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a Named Entity Recognition (NER) component weighting model in improving the Indonesian hadith retrieval system. We did 3 test scenarios, the first scenario (S1) did not separate the hadith into several components, the second scenario (S2) separated the hadith into 2 components, isnad and matan, and the third scenario separated the hadith into 4 components, isnad, background story, content, and additional information. From the experimental results, it is found that the TF-IDF with rocchio algorithm in query expansion outperforms DocVec. Also, separation and weighting of the hadith components affect the retrieval performance because isnad can be considered as noise in a query. Separation of 2 separate components had the best overall results in general although 4 separate components showed better results in some cases with precision up to 100% and 70% recall.

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