Information Retrieval and Text Categorization with Semantic Indexing

In this paper, we present the effect of the semantic indexing using WordNet senses on the Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization (TC) tasks. The documents have been sense-tagged using a Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) system based on Specialized Hidden Markov Models (SHMMs). The preliminary results showed that a small improvement of the performance was obtained only in the TC task.