Semantic association ranking schemes for information retrieval applications using term association graph representation

Abstract

Most of the Information Retrieval (IR) techniques are based on representing the documents using the traditional vector space and probabilistic language model i.e., bag-of- words model. In this paper, associations among words in the documents are assessed and it is expressed in Term Association Graph model to represent the document content and the relationship among the keywords. Earlier attempt on exploiting term association graph was done for non-personalized document re-ranking task. This paper experiments improved non-personalized and personalized re-ranking strategy which exploits term association graph data structure to assess the importance of a document for the user query and thus documents are re-ranked according to the association and similarity exists among the documents. This paper proposes various approaches under two models namely, Term Rank based Approach (TRA) and Path Traversal based Approaches (PTA1, PTA2, and PTA3). These approaches employ term association graph and has been evaluated using manually prepared real dataset and benchmark OHSUMED dataset. The results obtained are reasonably promising.