Title
Using Semantic Context To Rank The Results Of Keyword Search
Abstract
In an empirical user study, we assessed two approaches to ranking the results from a keyword search using semantic contextual match based on Latent Semantic Analysis. These techniques involved searches initiated from words found in a seed document within a corpus. The first approach used the sentence around the search query in the document as context while the second used the entire document. With a corpus of 20,000 documents and a small proportion of relevant documents (<0.1%), both techniques outperformed a conventional keyword search on a recall-based information retrieval (IR) task. These context-based techniques were associated with a reduction in the number of searches conducted, an increase in users' precision and, to a lesser extent, an increase in recall. This improvement was strongest when the ranking was based on document, rather than sentence, context. Individuals were more effective on the IR task when the lists returned by the techniques were ranked better. User performance on the task also correlated with achievement on a generalized IQ test but not on a linguistic ability test.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1080/10447318.2018.1485263
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
Field
DocType
Volume
Web search query,Ranking,Computer science,Keyword search,Semantic context,Human–computer interaction,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Latent semantic analysis,Sentence,Recall
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
1044-7318
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
50
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcus A. Butavicius110315.68
Kathryn M. Parsons29314.21
Agata McCormac39013.07
Simon Dennis400.68
Aaron Ceglar51068.42
Derek Weber621.72
Lael Ferguson700.34
Kenneth Treharne8152.83
Richard Leibbrandt91048.34
David M. W. Powers1050067.39