This research activity of Professor E. Liddy of Information Studies School at Syracuse University is being commercialized by InfoMall member -- the start-up company Textwise.
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The Surface Realizations i.e. particular strings of words in documents or database quert, do not reflect the breadth, richness or precision of meaning intended by either
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Author of Document
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Presenter of Query
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Simple word level representation cannot produce the recall and prescision possible when the full conceptual intent of queries and documents is the basis of retrieval
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Thus DR-LINK matches on the concepts of interest to the user and not just the words of interest
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DR-LINK achieves this deeper conceptual representation of texts by utilizing all the levels of language at which meaning is conveyed:
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Lexical, Syntactic, Semantic and Discourse levels of language
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DR-LINK combines these multiple levels of conceptual representation of text
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