Automatic Discovery of Synonyms from the Web based on Inbound Anchor Text
K C Srikantiah, M S Roopa, N. Krishna Kumar, Vinnakota Sai Durga Tejaswi, K R Venugopal, Lalit Mohan Patnaik · ePrints@Bangalore University (Bangalore University) · 2013
Accurate results for queries of keyword based search engines are hard to come by as the queries may return irrelevant URLs even though the given keyword is present in them and some relevant URLs may be lost as they may have the synonym of the keyword and not the original one. The proposed algorithm provides solutions for these problems by making use of the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) to generate a ranked list of candidate synonyms for individual keywords where the relevance of the URLs depicted by these synonyms is proved by comparing it with the URL depicted by the original keyword. This scalable technique can be applied to online data on the dynamic, domain-independent and unstructured World Wide Web. The candidate synonyms are ranked using Co-occurrence Frequencies and various page count based measures. The experimental results show that the best results are obtained …