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Temporal Analog Retrieval using Transformation over Dual Hierarchical Structures
- Source :
- CIKM
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- ACM, 2017.
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Abstract
- In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid increase of text con- tent stored in digital archives such as newspaper archives or web archives. Many old documents have been converted to digital form and made accessible online. Due to the passage of time, it is however difficult to effectively perform search within such collections. Users, especially younger ones, may have problems in finding appropriate keywords to perform effective search due to the terminology gap arising between their knowledge and the unfamiliar domain of archival collections. In this paper, we provide a general framework to bridge different domains across-time and, by this, to facilitate search and comparison as if carried in user's familiar domain (i.e., the present). In particular, we propose to find analogical terms across temporal text collections by applying a series of transformation procedures. We develop a cluster-biased transformation technique which makes use of hierarchical cluster structures built on the temporally distributed document collections. Our methods do not need any specially prepared training data and can be applied to diverse collections and time periods. We test the performance of the proposed approaches on the collections separated by both short (e.g., 20 years) and long time gaps (70 years), and we report improvements in range of 18%-27% over short and 56%-92% over long periods when compared to state-of-the-art baselines.
- Subjects :
- Information retrieval
business.industry
Computer science
05 social sciences
02 engineering and technology
DUAL (cognitive architecture)
Machine learning
computer.software_genre
Bridge (nautical)
Hierarchical clustering
Domain (software engineering)
Newspaper
Terminology
Range (mathematics)
Transformation (function)
020204 information systems
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Artificial intelligence
0509 other social sciences
050904 information & library sciences
business
computer
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........01ad7abce92b73d811927702f829ef9d