| Title |
Evaluation of Thesaurus on Sociopolitical Life as Information-Retrieval Tool |
| Authors |
Natalia V. Loukachevitch (Research Computing Center of Moscow State University 339, Research Computing Center of Moscow State University, Vorobyevy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia) Boris V. Dobrov (Research Computing Center of Moscow State University 339, Research Computing Center of Moscow State University, Vorobyevy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia) |
| Session |
EO1: Information Retrieval & Information Extraction Evaluation |
| Abstract |
In the paper we present description of Thesaurus on Sociopolitical life, which was constructed as a tool for automatic text processing of large text collections. Specific features of the thesaurus in comparison to conventional information-retrieval thesauri for manual indexing are described. Evaluation of thesaurus-based information retrieval for short queries showed considerable improvement of the model in comparison to vector model. |
| Keywords |
Thesaurus, Automatic text processing, Thesaurus-Based information retrieval |
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