Research Seminar - Glyn Caon

[Elyse Perin]

Dear Colleagues

 

You are invited to attend a research seminar by Glyn Caon.

 

Date: Friday 23^rd November 2012

 

Time: 12.00pm

 

Location: D1-05, Mawson Lakes

 

~ A light lunch will be provided ~

 

Glyn Caon,  PhD Candidate

Security and Web Technologies Lab
Supervisor: Associate Professor Helen Ashman

 

 

Title:

'Finding synonyms and other semantically-similar terms from coselection data'

 

Abstract:

Clickthrough data has been proposed for numerous uses, and this presentation describes how a special form of clickthough data, coselection data, can form non-ambiguous clusters that can then be used to detect semantic similarity between query terms. This semantic similarity assessment can be applied to distinct terms in the same language, giving rise to synonyms, or in different languages, indicating possible translations. It can determine alternative names or descriptors for items which do not occur in traditional thesauri, such as phrases, proper nouns or technical terms. The semantic similarity is calculated without any use of external reference materials and without any analysis of content.

 

Keywords:

Synonym discovery, implicit association, implicit relevance feedback, web search analysis.

 

Kind regards

Elyse