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Evaluation of Thesaurus on Sociopolitical Life as Information-Retrieval Tool
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)
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.