Wordnet and ontology based query expansion for semantic information retrieval in sports domain

Abstract

Semantic Search has been a major longing factor from the envisage state of Semantic Web. Information on the Web is growing at a very rapid pace and has become quite voluminous over the past few years. Semantics of the query is not considered in Traditional Search system since it is a mere Keyword based Search. To increase the number of relevant documents retrieved, queries need to be disambiguated by looking at their context. A query expansion algorithm for Semantic Information Retrieval in Sports Domain (SIRSD) is proposed to do Semantic Search to improve search over large document repositories. This algorithm reformulates user queries by using Word Net and domain ontology to improve the returned results. Our proposal is illustrated with sample experiments showing improvements with respect to Traditional Search and providing ground for further research and discussion. SIRSD reduces the issue of semantic interoperability during the user query search. It has been inferred that there will be a higher value of average precision and recall for the Semantic Search system when compared to Traditional Search. The results show its effectiveness in generating a suitable number of query search with an accuracy of 87.1% compared to other competitors of generic search engines.