Ganguly, Debasis ORCID: 0000-0003-0050-7138, Leveling, Johannes ORCID: 0000-0003-0603-4191 and Jones, Gareth J.F. ORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 (2013) An LDA-smoothed relevance model for document expansion: a case study for spoken document retrieval. In: 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2013), 28 July - 1 Aug 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
Abstract
Document expansion (DE) in information retrieval (IR) involves modifying each document in the collection by introducing additional terms into the document. It is particularly useful to improve retrieval of short and noisy documents where the additional terms can improve the description of the document content. Existing approaches to DE assume that documents to be expanded are from a single topic. In the case of multi-topic documents this can lead to a topic bias in terms selected for DE and hence may result in poor retrieval quality due to the lack of coverage of the original document topics in the expanded document. This paper proposes a new DE technique providing a more uniform selection and weighting of DE terms from all constituent topics. We show that our proposed method significantly outperforms the most recently reported relevance model based DE method on a spoken document retrieval task for both manual and automatic speech recognition transcripts.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Document Expansion; Topic Modelling |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Information retrieval |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing |
Published in: | Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 2013. . |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland |
ID Code: | 20375 |
Deposited On: | 15 Jan 2015 14:48 by Gareth Jones . Last Modified 25 Oct 2018 09:46 |
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