Conference,
Performance Evaluation of Query Processing Techniques in Information Retrieval
(2013)
Abstract
The first element of the search process is the query.
The user query being on an average restricted to two or three
keywords makes the query ambiguous to the search engine.
Given the user query, the goal of an Information Retrieval
IR system is to retrieve information which might be useful
or relevant to the information need of the user. Hence, the
query processing plays an important role in IR system.
The query processing can be divided into four categories
i.e. query expansion, query optimization, query classification and
query parsing. In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the
performance of query processing algorithms in each of the
category. The evaluation was based on dataset as specified by
Forum for Information Retrieval FIRE15. The criteria used
for evaluation are precision and relative recall. The analysis is
based on the importance of each step in query processing. The
experimental results show that the significance of each step
in query processing and also the relevance of web semantics
and spelling correction in the user query.
