Improving engineering information retrieval by combining TD-IDF and product structure classification

Jones, David; Matthews, Jason; Xie, Y; Gospill, James; Dotter, Martin; Chanchevrier, Nicolas; Hicks, Ben

Abstract

Engineering Information Management (EIM) and Information Retrieval (IR) systems are central to the day to day running of large engineering organisations. The capture, interrogation, retrieval and presentation of information from design to disposal is considered to be a key enabler for greater efficiency and decision making and in turn improved productivity, profitability and competitiveness. This paper presents a contribution to the field of engineering IR through combining TF-IDF with classification against the product structure. The results of this initial investigation show that Precision, Recall and F1-Scores can be improved depending on the method of results integration and thus tailored to the search system and context.

Citation

Jones, D., Matthews, J., Xie, Y., Gospill, J., Dotter, M., Chanchevrier, N., & Hicks, B. (2017). Improving engineering information retrieval by combining TD-IDF and product structure classification. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED17) (6-41)

• Conference Name: International conference on Engineering Design
• Conference Location: Vancouver, Canada
• Start Date: Aug 21, 2017
• End Date: Aug 25, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2017
• Publication Date: Aug 22, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jan 22, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 29, 2018
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 6-41
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED17)
• Keywords: knowledge management, information management, design informatics, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/882845
• Publisher URL: https://www.designsociety.org/multimedia/publication/b05b05ae42eb30f978ff922e85935ca5221e9135baa463eb9a75f322441b56de.pdf
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Copyright Design Society. This paper was originally published in DS 87-6 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 17); Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : DS 87-6 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 17) Vol 6: Design Information and Knowledge, Vancouver, Canada, 21-25.08.2017., pp. 041-050