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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES BY DR. ADNAN ABID

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES BY DR. ADNAN ABID. Lecture # 19 Permuterm index k -gram. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The presentation of this lecture has been taken from the underline sources

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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES BY DR. ADNAN ABID

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  1. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUESBYDR. ADNAN ABID Lecture # 19 Permuterm index k-gram

  2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The presentation of this lecture has been taken from the underline sources • “Introduction to information retrieval” by PrabhakarRaghavan, Christopher D. Manning, and HinrichSchütze • “Managing gigabytes” by Ian H. Witten, ‎Alistair Moffat, ‎Timothy C. Bell • “Modern information retrieval” by Baeza-Yates Ricardo, ‎ • “Web Information Retrieval” by Stefano Ceri, ‎Alessandro Bozzon, ‎Marco Brambilla

  3. Outline • Permutermindex • k-gram • Soundex

  4. Query = hel*o X=hel, Y=o Lookup o$hel* Permuterm index a*e*i*o*u  a * u  u$a*  look up B tree • For term hello, index under: • hello$, ello$h, llo$he, lo$hel, o$hell where $ is a special symbol. • Queries: • X lookup on X$ X* lookup on $X* • *X lookup on X$**X* lookup on X* • X*Y lookup on Y$X*X*Y*Z ??? Exercise! X, X*, *X are all simple and can be handled without permuterm. X*Y and X*Y*Z can be handled with permuterm. Permuterm index increases the size of dictionary 4 times FOR ENGLINSH Depends on average length of a word

  5. Bigram (k-gram) indexes • Enumerate all k-grams (sequence of k chars) occurring in any term • e.g., from text “April is the cruelest month” we get the 2-grams (bigrams) • $ is a special word boundary symbol • Maintain a second inverted indexfrom bigrams todictionary terms that match each bigram. $a,ap,pr,ri,il,l$,$i,is,s$,$t,th,he,e$,$c,cr,ru, ue,el,le,es,st,t$, $m,mo,on,nt,h$

  6. Bigram index example • The k-gram index finds terms based on a query consisting of k-grams (here k=2). $m mace madden mo among amortize on along among

  7. Processing wild-cards • Query mon* can now be run as • $m AND mo AND on • Gets terms that match AND version of our wildcard query. • But we’d enumerate moon. • Must post-filter these terms against query. • Surviving enumerated terms are then looked up in the term-document inverted index. • Fast, space efficient (compared to permuterm).

  8. K-gram Index • Larger k-grams would be lesser flexibility in query processing. • Normally bi and tri k-gram proffered.

  9. Processing wild-card queries • As before, we must execute a Boolean query for each enumerated, filtered term. • Wild-cards can result in expensive query execution (very large disjunctions…) • pyth* AND prog* • If you encourage “laziness” people will respond! • Which web search engines allow wildcard queries? Search Type your search terms, use ‘*’ if you need to. E.g., Alex* will match Alexander.

  10. Soundex

  11. Soundex • Class of heuristics to expand a query into phonetic equivalents • Language specific – mainly for names • E.g., chebyshev tchebycheff • Invented for the U.S. census … in 1918

  12. Soundex – typical algorithm • Retain the first letter of the word. • Change all occurrences of the following letters to '0' (zero):  'A', E', 'I', 'O', 'U', 'H', 'W', 'Y'. • Change letters to digits as follows: • B, F, P, V  1 • C, G, J, K, Q, S, X, Z  2 • D,T  3 • L  4 • M, N  5 • R  6 e.g. Herman H0rm0n H0r505 H06505

  13. Soundex continued • Remove all pairs of consecutive digits. • Remove all zeros from the resulting string. • Pad the resulting string with trailing zeros and return the first four positions, which will be of the form <uppercase letter> <digit> <digit> <digit>. E.g., Herman becomes H655. Will hermann generate the same code?

  14. Soundex • Soundex is the classic algorithm, provided by most databases (Oracle, Microsoft, …) • How useful is soundex? • Generally used for Proper Nouns. • Database systems also provide soundex option. • Get names whose last name is same as soundex(SMITH) • We may get Lindsay and William • It lowers precision. • But increases Recall. • Can be used by Interpol to check names. • Generally such algorithm are tailored according to European names. • There are other variants which work well for IR.

  15. Resources • IIR 3, MG 4.2 • Efficient spell retrieval: • K. Kukich. Techniques for automatically correcting words in text. ACM Computing Surveys 24(4), Dec 1992. • J. Zobel and P. Dart.  Finding approximate matches in large lexicons.  Software - practice and experience 25(3), March 1995. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/zobel95finding.html • Mikael Tillenius: Efficient Generation and Ranking of Spelling Error Corrections. Master’s thesis at Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/179155.html • Nice, easy reading on spell correction: • Peter Norvig: How to write a spelling corrector http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

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