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Using WordNet in a Knowledge-Based Approach to Information Retrieval

@inproceedings{Richardson1995UsingWI,
  title={Using WordNet in a Knowledge-Based Approach to Information Retrieval},
  author={Raymond Richardson and Alan F. Smeaton},
  year={1995}
}
The application of natural language processing tools and techniques to information retrieval tasks has long since been identified as potentially useful for the quality of information retrieval. Traditionally, IR has been based on matching words or terms in a query with words or terms in a document. In this paper we introduce an approach to IR based on computing a semantic distance measurement between concepts or words and using this word distance to compute a similarity between a query and a… 
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