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Exploring sentence level query expansion in language modeling based information retrieval

Ganguly, Debasis orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-0050-7138, Leveling, Johannes orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-0603-4191 and Jones, Gareth J.F. orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 (2010) Exploring sentence level query expansion in language modeling based information retrieval. In: the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON 2010, 8-11 Dec. 2010, Kharagpur, India..

Abstract
We introduce two novel methods for query expansion in information retrieval (IR). The basis of these methods is to add the most similar sentences extracted from pseudo-relevant documents to the original query. The first method adds a fixed number of sentences to the original query, the second a progressively decreasing number of sentences. We evaluate these methods on the English and Bengali test collections from the FIRE workshops. The major findings of this study are that: i) performance is similar for both English and Bengali; ii) employing a smaller context (similar sentences) yields a considerably higher mean average precision (MAP) compared to extracting terms from full documents (up to 5.9% improvemnent in MAP for English and 10.7% for Bengali compared to standard Blind Relevance Feedback (BRF); iii) using a variable number of sentences for query expansion performs better and shows less variance in the best MAP for different parameter settings; iv) query expansion based on sentences can improve performance even for topics with low initial retrieval precision where standard BRF fails.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Blind Relevance Feedback; BRF; query expansion
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
Research Initiatives and Centres > National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:16038
Deposited On:17 Jun 2011 13:20 by Shane Harper . Last Modified 25 Oct 2018 10:44
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