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Linguistic Knowledge Can Improve Information Retrieval

Author(s):
William A. Woods, Paul Martin, Robert J. Kuhns, Ann Houston, Stephen Green and Lawrence A. Bookman
Report Number: Date Published: Available Formats:
TR-99-83 December 1999 Portable Document Format (PDF)
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Abstract

This paper describes the results of some experiments using a new approach to information access that combines techniques from natural language processing and knowledge representation with a new technique for relevance estimation and passage retrieval. Unlike many attempts to combine natural language processing with information retrieval, these results show significant benefit from using linguistic knowledge.