Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computing and Wireless Communication Systems, ICCWCS 2019, April 24-25, 2019, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofaïl University -Kénitra- Morocco

Research Article

Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-4-2019.2284070,
        author={Sarah  Dahir and Abderrahim  El Qadi and Hamid  Bennis},
        title={Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computing and Wireless Communication Systems, ICCWCS 2019, April 24-25, 2019, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofa\~{n}l University -K\^{e}nitra- Morocco},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICCWCS},
        year={2019},
        month={5},
        keywords={information retrieval query expansion linked data wikipedia wikidata},
        doi={10.4108/eai.24-4-2019.2284070}
    }
    
  • Sarah Dahir
    Abderrahim El Qadi
    Hamid Bennis
    Year: 2019
    Query expansion using Wikidata attributes’ values
    ICCWCS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-4-2019.2284070
Sarah Dahir1,*, Abderrahim El Qadi2, Hamid Bennis1
  • 1: High School of Technology of Meknès, Moulay Ismail University of Meknès, Morocco
  • 2: High School of Technology of Salé, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco
*Contact email: sarah.dahir2012@gmail.com

Abstract

One of the well known techniques that are used to increase the relevancy of user queries is query reformulation through the expansion of queries. Also, Linked data are being used in various fields and available for different domains. This paper aimed at improving Information Retrieval results using Linked data from Wikipedia in general and Wikidata in particular to expand the queries with attributes‟ values. The experiments that we have done, using Medline collection and Indri search engine to compare our suggested approach with baseline, lead to improvements in precision at different ranks.