Linguistic knowledge can improve information retrieval
William A. Woods, Lawrence A. Bookman, Ann Houston, Robert J. Kuhns, Paul C. Martin, Stephen A. Green · 2000
This paper describes the results of some experiments using a new approach to information access that combines techniques from natural language processing and knowledge representation with a penalty-based technique for relevance estimation and passage retrieval. Unlike many attempts to combine natural language processing with information retrieval, these results show substantial benefit from using linguistic knowledge.