Weak semantic techniques rely on the integration of Semantic Web techniques with social annotations, and aim to embrace the strengths of both of them. In this paper, we propose a novel weak semantic technique for query expansion. Traditional query expansion techniques are based on the computation of two-dimensional co-occurrence matrices. Our approach proposes the use of three-dimensional matrices, where the added dimension is represented by semantic classes, (i.e., categories comprising all the terms that share a semantic property) related to the folksonomy extracted from social bookmarking services such as delicious and StumbleUpon. The results of an in-depth experimental evaluation performed on both artificial datasets and real users show that our approach outperforms traditional techniques, such as relevance feedback and per- sonalized PageRank, so confirming the validity and usefulness of the categorization of the user needs and preferences in semantic classes. We also present the results of a questionnaire aimed to know the users opinion regarding the system. As one drawback of several query expansion techniques is their high compu- tational costs, we also provide a complexity analysis of our system, in order to show its capability to operate in real time.

Biancalana, C., Gasparetti, F., Micarelli, A., Sansonetti, G. (2013). Social Semantic Query Expansion. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY, 4(4), 1-43 [10.1145/2508037.2508041].

Social Semantic Query Expansion

BIANCALANA, CLAUDIO;GASPARETTI, FABIO;MICARELLI, Alessandro;SANSONETTI, GIUSEPPE
2013-01-01

Abstract

Weak semantic techniques rely on the integration of Semantic Web techniques with social annotations, and aim to embrace the strengths of both of them. In this paper, we propose a novel weak semantic technique for query expansion. Traditional query expansion techniques are based on the computation of two-dimensional co-occurrence matrices. Our approach proposes the use of three-dimensional matrices, where the added dimension is represented by semantic classes, (i.e., categories comprising all the terms that share a semantic property) related to the folksonomy extracted from social bookmarking services such as delicious and StumbleUpon. The results of an in-depth experimental evaluation performed on both artificial datasets and real users show that our approach outperforms traditional techniques, such as relevance feedback and per- sonalized PageRank, so confirming the validity and usefulness of the categorization of the user needs and preferences in semantic classes. We also present the results of a questionnaire aimed to know the users opinion regarding the system. As one drawback of several query expansion techniques is their high compu- tational costs, we also provide a complexity analysis of our system, in order to show its capability to operate in real time.
2013
Biancalana, C., Gasparetti, F., Micarelli, A., Sansonetti, G. (2013). Social Semantic Query Expansion. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY, 4(4), 1-43 [10.1145/2508037.2508041].
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