Dipe-D: A tool for knowledge-based query formulation in information retrieval

作     者：Van der Pol, R 

作者机构：Amsterdam & Maastricht Univ Inst Knowledge & Agent Technol Amsterdam Netherlands 

出 版 物：《INFORMATION RETRIEVAL》 (信息检索)

年 卷 期：2003年第6卷第1期

页      面：21-47页

核心收录：

学科分类：1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 12[管理学] 120501[管理学-图书馆学] 120502[管理学-情报学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：information retrieval query formulation knowledge engineering/artificial intelligence 

摘      要：The paper reports the development of Dipe-D, a knowledge-based procedure for the formulation of Boolean queries in information retrieval. Dipe-D creates a query in two steps: ( 1) the user s information need is developed interactively, while identifying the concepts of the information need, and subsequently ( 2) the collection of concepts identified is automatically transformed into a Boolean query. In the first step, the subject area - as represented in a knowledge base - is explored by the user. He does this by means of specifying the ( concepts that meet his) information need in an artificial language and looking through the solution as provided by the computer. The specification language allows one to specify concepts by their features, both in precise terms as well as vaguely. By repeating the process of specifying the information need and exploring the resulting concepts, the user may precisely single out the concepts that describe his information need. In the second step, the program provides the designations ( and variants) for the concepts identified, and connects them by appropriate operators. Dipe-D is meant to improve on existing procedures that identify the concepts less systematically, create a query manually, and then sometimes expand that query. Experiments are reported on each of the two steps;they indicate that the first step identifies only but not all the relevant concepts, and the second step performs ( at least) as good as human beings do.