Title
Conqur-Bio: Consensus Ranking With Query Reformulation For Biological Data
Abstract
This paper introduces ConQuR-Bio which aims at assisting scientists when they query public biological databases. Various reformulations of the user query are generated using medical terminologies. Such alternative reformulations are then used to rank the query results using a new consensus ranking strategy. The originality of our approach thus lies in using consensus ranking techniques within the context of query reformulation. The ConQuR-Bio system is able to query the Entrez-Gene NCBI database. Our experiments demonstrate the benefit of using ConQuR-Bio compared to what is currently provided to users. ConQuR-Bio is available to the bioinformatics community at http://conqur-bio.lri.fr.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-08590-6_13
DATA INTEGRATION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES, DILS 2014
Field
DocType
Volume
Query optimization,Web search query,Data mining,RDF query language,Query language,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Computer science,Sargable,Web query classification,Ranking (information retrieval),Database
Conference
8574
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
3
0.40
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bryan Brancotte1213.40
Bastien Rance230.40
Alain Denise330.40
Sarah Cohen Boulakia430.40