Using Wordnet to improve the quality of query clusters

• Main Author: Ray Chandrani Sinha
• Other Authors: Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1908
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Collaborative search using query clustering helps users make use of others' queries to refine their search. Clustering queries based on their content is not very useful as users tend to use different words to express their information need. Hence, in this study, a thesaurus is used to incorpora...