A query expansion approach using entity distribution based on Markov random fields

Rui Li, Linxue Hao, Xiaozhao Zhao, Peng Zhang, Dawei Song*, Yuexian Hou

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The development of knowledge graph construction has prompted more and more commercial engines to improve the retrieval performance by using knowledge graphs as the basic semantic web. Knowledge graph is often used for knowledge inference and entity search, however, the potential ability of its entities and properties for better improving search performance in query expansion remains to be further excavated. In this paper, we propose a novel query expansion technique with knowledge graph (KG) based on the Markov random fields (MRF) model to enhance retrieval performance. This technique, called MRFKG, models the joint distribution of original query terms, documents and two expanded variants, i.e. entities and properties. We conduct experiments on two TREC collections, WT10G and ClueWeb12B, annotated with Freebase entities. Experiment results demonstrate that MRF-KG outperforms traditional graph-based models.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Retrieval Technology - 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, Proceedings
EditorsFalk Scholer, Guido Zuccon, Shlomo Geva, Aixin Sun, Hideo Joho, Peng Zhang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages387-393
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783319289397
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015 - Brisbane, Australia
Duration: 2 Dec 20154 Dec 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9460
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityBrisbane
Period2/12/154/12/15

Keywords

  • Entity
  • Knowledge graph
  • MRF
  • Query expansion

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