Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision Making

The notion of semantic information granulation is explored to estimate the information specificity or generality of documents. Basically, a document is considered more specific than another document if it contains more cohesive domain-specific terminologies than that of the other one. We believe tha...

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Main Authors: Raymond Y.K. Lau, Chapmann C.L. Lai, Yuefeng Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2011-02-01
Series:International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
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Online Access:https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/2130.pdf
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author Raymond Y.K. Lau
Chapmann C.L. Lai
Yuefeng Li
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Yuefeng Li
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description The notion of semantic information granulation is explored to estimate the information specificity or generality of documents. Basically, a document is considered more specific than another document if it contains more cohesive domain-specific terminologies than that of the other one. We believe that the dimension of semantic granularity is an important supplement to the existing similarity-based and popularity-based measures for building effective document ranking functions. The main contributions of this paper is the illustration of the design and development of a fuzzy ontology based granular information retrieval (IR) system to improve the effectiveness of IR decision making for various domains. Based on the notion of semantic information granulation, a novel computational model is developed to estimate the semantic granularity of documents; these documents can then be ranked according to the information seekers' specific semantic granularity requirements. One main component of the proposed computational model is the fuzzy ontology mining mechanism which can automatically build domain-specific ontology for the estimation of semantic granularity of documents. Our TREC-based experiment reveals that the proposed fuzzy ontology based granular IR system outperforms a classical vector space based IR system in domain specific IR. Our research work opens the door to the applications of granular computing and fuzzy ontology mining methods to enhance domain specific IR decision making.
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spelling doaj.art-9896402e5d714f9599e24fef48a64b932022-12-22T00:49:58ZengSpringerInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems1875-68832011-02-014110.2991/ijcis.2011.4.1.5Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision MakingRaymond Y.K. LauChapmann C.L. LaiYuefeng LiThe notion of semantic information granulation is explored to estimate the information specificity or generality of documents. Basically, a document is considered more specific than another document if it contains more cohesive domain-specific terminologies than that of the other one. We believe that the dimension of semantic granularity is an important supplement to the existing similarity-based and popularity-based measures for building effective document ranking functions. The main contributions of this paper is the illustration of the design and development of a fuzzy ontology based granular information retrieval (IR) system to improve the effectiveness of IR decision making for various domains. Based on the notion of semantic information granulation, a novel computational model is developed to estimate the semantic granularity of documents; these documents can then be ranked according to the information seekers' specific semantic granularity requirements. One main component of the proposed computational model is the fuzzy ontology mining mechanism which can automatically build domain-specific ontology for the estimation of semantic granularity of documents. Our TREC-based experiment reveals that the proposed fuzzy ontology based granular IR system outperforms a classical vector space based IR system in domain specific IR. Our research work opens the door to the applications of granular computing and fuzzy ontology mining methods to enhance domain specific IR decision making.https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/2130.pdfText MiningFuzzy OntologyFuzzy SubsumptionInformation GranulationGranular ComputingInformation Retrieval.
spellingShingle Raymond Y.K. Lau
Chapmann C.L. Lai
Yuefeng Li
Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision Making
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Text Mining
Fuzzy Ontology
Fuzzy Subsumption
Information Granulation
Granular Computing
Information Retrieval.
title Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision Making
title_full Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision Making
title_fullStr Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision Making
title_full_unstemmed Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision Making
title_short Fuzzy Ontology Mining and Semantic Information Granulation for Effective Information Retrieval Decision Making
title_sort fuzzy ontology mining and semantic information granulation for effective information retrieval decision making
topic Text Mining
Fuzzy Ontology
Fuzzy Subsumption
Information Granulation
Granular Computing
Information Retrieval.
url https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/2130.pdf
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