Finding relevant publications in the scientific domain can be quite tedious: Accessing large-scale document collections often means to formulate an initial keyword-based query followed by many refinements to retrieve a sufficiently complete, yet manageable set of documents to satisfy one's information need. Since keyword-based search limits researchers to formulating their information needs as a set of unconnected keywords, retrieval systems try to guess each user's intent. In contrast, distilling short narratives of the searchers' information needs into simple, yet precise entity-interaction graph patterns provides all information needed for a precise search. As an additional benefit, such graph patterns may also feature variable nodes to flexibly allow for different substitutions of entities taking a specified role. An evaluation over the PubMed document collection quantifies the gains in precision for our novel entity-interaction-aware search. Moreover, we perform expert interviews and a questionnaire to verify the usefulness of our system in practice. This paper extends our previous work by giving a comprehensive overview about the discovery system to realize narrative query graph retrieval.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Kroll2023
%A Kroll, Hermann
%A Pirklbauer, Jan
%A Kalo, Jan-Christoph
%A Kunz, Morris
%A Ruthmann, Johannes
%A Balke, Wolf-Tilo
%D 2023
%J International Journal on Digital Libraries
%K digital_libraries knowledge_graphs myown
%R 10.1007/s00799-023-00356-3
%T A discovery system for narrative query graphs: entity-interaction-aware document retrieval
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00356-3
%X Finding relevant publications in the scientific domain can be quite tedious: Accessing large-scale document collections often means to formulate an initial keyword-based query followed by many refinements to retrieve a sufficiently complete, yet manageable set of documents to satisfy one's information need. Since keyword-based search limits researchers to formulating their information needs as a set of unconnected keywords, retrieval systems try to guess each user's intent. In contrast, distilling short narratives of the searchers' information needs into simple, yet precise entity-interaction graph patterns provides all information needed for a precise search. As an additional benefit, such graph patterns may also feature variable nodes to flexibly allow for different substitutions of entities taking a specified role. An evaluation over the PubMed document collection quantifies the gains in precision for our novel entity-interaction-aware search. Moreover, we perform expert interviews and a questionnaire to verify the usefulness of our system in practice. This paper extends our previous work by giving a comprehensive overview about the discovery system to realize narrative query graph retrieval.
@article{Kroll2023,
abstract = {Finding relevant publications in the scientific domain can be quite tedious: Accessing large-scale document collections often means to formulate an initial keyword-based query followed by many refinements to retrieve a sufficiently complete, yet manageable set of documents to satisfy one's information need. Since keyword-based search limits researchers to formulating their information needs as a set of unconnected keywords, retrieval systems try to guess each user's intent. In contrast, distilling short narratives of the searchers' information needs into simple, yet precise entity-interaction graph patterns provides all information needed for a precise search. As an additional benefit, such graph patterns may also feature variable nodes to flexibly allow for different substitutions of entities taking a specified role. An evaluation over the PubMed document collection quantifies the gains in precision for our novel entity-interaction-aware search. Moreover, we perform expert interviews and a questionnaire to verify the usefulness of our system in practice. This paper extends our previous work by giving a comprehensive overview about the discovery system to realize narrative query graph retrieval.},
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author = {Kroll, Hermann and Pirklbauer, Jan and Kalo, Jan-Christoph and Kunz, Morris and Ruthmann, Johannes and Balke, Wolf-Tilo},
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title = {A discovery system for narrative query graphs: entity-interaction-aware document retrieval},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00356-3},
year = 2023
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