Comparative evaluation of query expansion
methods for enhanced search on microblog
data: DCU ADAPT @ SMERP 2017 workshop
data challenge
Li, Wei B.ORCID: 0000-0001-7347-3501 and Jones, Gareth J.F.ORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365
(2017)
Comparative evaluation of query expansion
methods for enhanced search on microblog
data: DCU ADAPT @ SMERP 2017 workshop
data challenge.
In: First International Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness, 9 Apr 2017, Aberdeen,Scotland.
The rapid growth in the availability of social media content
posted during emergency situations is creating significant interest in research into how this information can be exploited to assist emergency
relief operations and to help with emergency preparedness and in early
warning systems. We describe the DCU ADAPT Centre participation
in the microblog search data challenge at the SMERP 2017 workshop.
This task aimed to promote development of information retrieval (IR)
methods for practical challenges that need to be addressed during an
emergency event, along with comparative evaluation of the methodologies developed for this task. The task is based on a large dataset of microblogs posted during the earthquake in Italy in August 2016, together
with a set of query topics provided by the task organisers. For our participation in this task we explored use of three different IR techniques:
standard IR query expansion based on an external resource, query expansion based on WordNet and use of query expansion
Metadata
Item Type:
Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:
Conference
Refereed:
Yes
Additional Information:
Co-located with: ECIR 2017
Uncontrolled Keywords:
exploitation of social media in emergency situations; microblog search; query expansion; external collections; WordNet
Ghosh, Saptarshi, Ghosh, Kripabandhu, Chakraborty, Tanmoy, Ganguly, Debasis, Jones, Gareth J.F. and Moens, Marie-Francine, (eds.)
First International Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
1832.
CEUR-WS.