SMS query processing for information retrieval

Authors :: Shinghal, Khushboo
Majumder, Prasenjit
Source :: IndraStra Global.
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2012.
Abstract: SMS text messaging is one of the fast and popular communication mode on mobile phones these days. This study presents a query processing system for information retrieval system when queries are Short-message-Service (SMS). SMS contains various user improvisation and typographical errors. Proposed approach uses approximate string matching techniques and context extraction to normalize SMS queries with minimum linguistic resources. We have tested the system on FIRE 2011 SMS based FAQ retrieval corpus. Results seems encouraging