Implementation of an efficient Fuzzy Logic based Information Retrieval System
This work addresses information retrieval efficiency for users needing document similarity matching, but it is incremental as it applies an existing fuzzy logic method to a standard dataset.
The paper tackled the problem of computing similarity between datasets and queries in information retrieval by implementing a fuzzy logic-based system, and the results showed that it outperformed the cosine similarity model in performance and accuracy as demonstrated by precision-recall curves.
This paper exemplifies the implementation of an efficient Information Retrieval (IR) System to compute the similarity between a dataset and a query using Fuzzy Logic. TREC dataset has been used for the same purpose. The dataset is parsed to generate keywords index which is used for the similarity comparison with the user query. Each query is assigned a score value based on its fuzzy similarity with the index keywords. The relevant documents are retrieved based on the score value. The performance and accuracy of the proposed fuzzy similarity model is compared with Cosine similarity model using Precision-Recall curves. The results prove the dominance of Fuzzy Similarity based IR system.