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Thematic Cohesion: measuring terms discriminatory power toward themes

We present a new measure of thematic cohesion. This measure associates each term with a weight representing its discriminatory power toward a theme, this theme being itself expressed by a list of terms (a thematic lexicon). This thematic cohesion criterion can be used in many applications, such as query expansion, computer-assisted translation, or iterative construction of domain-specific lexicons and corpora. The measure is computed in two steps. First, a set of documents related to the terms is gathered from the Web by querying a Web search engine. Then, we produce an oriented co-occurrence graph, where vertices are the terms and edges represent the fact that two terms co-occur in a document. This graph can be interpreted as a recommendation graph, where two terms occurring in a same document means that they recommend each other. This leads to using a random walk algorithm that assigns a global importance value to each vertex of the graph. After observing the impact of various parameters on those importance values, we evaluate their correlation with retrieval effectiveness.

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