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On the Usefulness of Extracting Syntactic Dependencies for Text Indexing

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Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2002)

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In recent years, there has been a considerable amount of interest in using Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval research, with specific implementations varyingfrom the word-level morphological analysis to syntactic parsing to conceptual-level semantic analysis. In particular, different degrees of phrase-level syntactic information have been incorporated in information retrieval systems workingon English or Germanic languages such as Dutch. In this paper we study the impact of usingsuc h information, in the form of syntactic dependency pairs, in the performance of a text retrieval system for a Romance language, Spanish.

The research reported in this article has been supported in part by Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (Grant TIC2000- 0370-C02-01), Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Grant HP2001-0044) and Xunta de Galicia (Grant PGIDT01PXI10506PN).

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  1. Departamento de Computación, Universidade da Coruña, Campus de Elviña s/n, 15071, La Coruña, Spain

    Miguel A. Alonso & Jesús Vilares

  2. Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Universidade de Vigo, Campus de As Lagoas, 32004, Orense, Spain

    Jesús Vilares & Víctor M. Darriba

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    Michael O’Neill , Richard F. E. Sutcliffe , Conor Ryan , Malachy Eaton  & Niall J. L. Griffith , , ,  & 

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Alonso, M.A., Vilares, J., Darriba, V.M. (2002). On the Usefulness of Extracting Syntactic Dependencies for Text Indexing. In: O’Neill, M., Sutcliffe, R.F.E., Ryan, C., Eaton, M., Griffith, N.J.L. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. AICS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2464. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45750-X_1

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