A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:2905733, abstract = {This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of both queries and documents. This allows it to (a) expand queries automatically and (b) help guide the user as they evolve their queries interactively. Its understanding is mined from the vast investment of manual effort and judgment that is Wikipedia. We show how this open, constantly evolving encyclopedia can yield inexpensive knowledge structures that are specifically tailored to expose the topics, terminology and semantics of individual document collections. We conducted a detailed user study with 12 participants and 10 topics from the 2005 TREC HARD track, and found that Koru and its underlying knowledge base offers significant advantages over traditional keyword search. It was capable of lending assistance to almost every query issued to it; making their entry more efficient, improving the relevance of the documents they return, and narrowing the gap between expert and novice seekers.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Milne, David N. and Witten, Ian H. and Nichols, David M.}, booktitle = {CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management}, citeulike-article-id = {2905733}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1321440.1321504}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1321440.1321504}, doi = {10.1145/1321440.1321504}, isbn = {978-1-59593-803-9}, keywords = {expansion, information, query, retrieval}, location = {Lisbon, Portugal}, pages = {445--454}, posted-at = {2009-06-25 17:36:31}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1321440.1321504}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2905733 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2905733 N2 - This paper describes Koru, a new search interface that offers effective domain-independent knowledge-based information retrieval. Koru exhibits an understanding of the topics of both queries and documents. This allows it to (a) expand queries automatically and (b) help guide the user as they evolve their queries interactively. Its understanding is mined from the vast investment of manual effort and judgment that is Wikipedia. We show how this open, constantly evolving encyclopedia can yield inexpensive knowledge structures that are specifically tailored to expose the topics, terminology and semantics of individual document collections. We conducted a detailed user study with 12 participants and 10 topics from the 2005 TREC HARD track, and found that Koru and its underlying knowledge base offers significant advantages over traditional keyword search. It was capable of lending assistance to almost every query issued to it; making their entry more efficient, improving the relevance of the documents they return, and narrowing the gap between expert and novice seekers. CY - Lisbon, Portugal SN - 978-1-59593-803-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 454 TI - A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia PB - ACM T2 - CIKM '07: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management SP - 445 KW - expansion KW - information KW - query KW - retrieval AU - Milne, David AU - Witten, Ian AU - Nichols, David PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1321440.1321504 ER -