OUC's Participation in the 2012 INEX Book and Linked-Data Tracks.
Michael Preminger, Ragnar Nordlie, David Massey, Nils Pharo · 2012
Abstract. In this article we describe the Oslo University College’s par-ticipation in the INEX 2012 endeavor. This year we participate in the Book Track’s ”Prove it ” (as in 2011) and Social search tasks, as well as the Linked Data track’s Ad-hoc task. In 2011, the OUC submitted retrieval results for the ”Prove It ” task with traditional relevance detection combined with detection of confrmation based on specificity detected through the Wordnet concept hierarchy. In line with our belief that proving or refuting facts are different semantic aware actions of speech, we have this year attempted to incorporate some semantic support based on Named entity recognition. For the Social search task, we wish to examine the utility of the MARC-data (subject heading field) in social searching for readings. For the Linked data task, we wish to explore the possibility of using links as a query expansion mechanism. 1 The Prove-it task of the Book Track