A study on using genetic niching for query optimisation in document retrieval

Mohand Boughanem (1, 2) , Lynda Tamine (3, 4)

1 IRIT-SIG - Systèmes d’Informations Généralisées
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 GRIMM - Groupe de Recherche en Mathématiques et Informatique du Mirail
4 IRIT-IRIS - Recherche d’Information et Synthèse d’Information

This paper presents a new genetic approach for query optimisation in document retrieval. The main contribution of the paper is to show the effectiveness of the genetic niching technique to reach multiple relevant regions of the document space. Moreover, suitable merging procedures have been proposed in order to improve the retrieval evaluation. Experimental results obtained using a TREC sub-collection indicate that the proposed approach is promising for applications.

Domaines: Recherche d'information [cs.IR]

Mohand Boughanem, Lynda Tamine. A study on using genetic niching for query optimisation in document retrieval. 24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2002), Mar 2002, Glasgow, United Kingdom. pp.135-149, ⟨10.1007/3-540-45886-7_10⟩. ⟨hal-00359561⟩