An Ontological Representation of Documents and Queries for Information Retrieval Systems

This paper presents a vector space model approach, for representing documents and queries, using concepts instead of terms and WordNet as a light ontology. This way, information overlap is reduced with respect to the classic semantic expansion techniques. Experiments carried out on the MuchMore benchmark showed the effectiveness of the approach.

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