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) Postscript (PS) Request Hard Copy
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.

Linguistic Knowledge Can Improve Information Retrieval