Twentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'07)
Ontology Based Clustering for Improving Genomic IR
Maribor, Slovenia
June 20-June 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2905-4
Recent work has shown that ontology is useful to improve the performance of information retrieval, especially in biomedical literatures. The method of ontology-based can solve synonym problems. In this paper, we propose a new frame for genomic information retrieval based on UMLS. In our frame, Genomic information retrieval includes three processes: first, documents were indexed based UMLS, which means documents were represented by concepts, besides, the concept weight was re-calculated combined with similarity between concepts. Second, documents were clustered using fuzzy c-means method. At last cluster language model is utilized for information retrieval. Our method can solve partly synonymy and polysemy problems. The new method is evaluated on TREC 2004/05 Genomics Track collections. Experiments show that the retrieval performance is greatly improved by the new method compared with the basic language model.
Index Terms:
Genomic information retrieval, concept index, cluster language model
Citation:
Jian Wen, Zhoujun Li, Xiaohua Hu, "Ontology Based Clustering for Improving Genomic IR," cbms, pp.225-230, Twentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'07), 2007