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Improving English and Chinese Ad-Hoc Retrieval: A Tipster Text Phase 3 Project Report 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
K.L. Kwok 《Information Retrieval》2000,3(4):313-338
Both English and Chinese ad-hoc information retrieval were investigated in this Tipster 3 project. Part of our objectives is to study the use of various term level and phrasal level evidence to improve retrieval accuracy. For short queries, we studied five term level techniques that together can lead to good improvements over standard ad-hoc 2-stage retrieval for TREC5-8 experiments. For long queries, we studied the use of linguistic phrases to re-rank retrieval lists. Its effect is small but consistently positive.For Chinese IR, we investigated three simple representations for documents and queries: short-words, bigrams and characters. Both approximate short-word segmentation or bigrams, augmented with characters, give highly effective results. Accurate word segmentation appears not crucial for overall result of a query set. Character indexing by itself is not competitive. Additional improvements may be obtained using collection enrichment and combination of retrieval lists.Our PIRCS document-focused retrieval is also shown to have similarity with a simple language model approach to IR. 相似文献
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We present a system for multilingual information retrieval that allows users to formulate queries in their preferred language and retrieve relevant information from a collection containing documents in multiple languages. The system is based on a process of document level alignments, where documents of different languages are paired according to their similarity. The resulting mapping allows us to produce a multilingual comparable corpus. Such a corpus has multiple interesting applications. It allows us to build a data structure for query translation in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). Moreover, we also perform pseudo relevance feedback on the alignments to improve our retrieval results. And finally, multiple retrieval runs can be merged into one unified result list. The resulting system is inexpensive, adaptable to domain-specific collections and new languages and has performed very well at the TREC-7 conference CLIR system comparison. 相似文献
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As the volume and variety of information sources continues to grow, there is increasing difficulty with respect to obtaining
information that accurately matches user information needs. A number of factors affect information retrieval effectiveness
(the accuracy of matching user information needs against the retrieved information). First, users often do not present search
queries in the form that optimally represents their information need. Second, the measure of a document’s relevance is often
highly subjective between different users. Third, information sources might contain heterogeneous documents, in multiple formats
and the representation of documents is not unified. This paper discusses an approach for improvement of information retrieval
effectiveness from document databases. It is proposed that retrieval effectiveness can be improved by applying computational
intelligence techniques for modelling information needs, through interactive reinforcement learning. The method combines qualitative
(subjective) user relevance feedback with quantitative (algorithmic) measures of the relevance of retrieved documents. An
information retrieval is developed whose retrieval effectiveness is evaluated using traditional precision and recall. 相似文献
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David E. Losada 《Information Retrieval》2010,13(5):485-506
The retrieval of sentences that are relevant to a given information need is a challenging passage retrieval task. In this
context, the well-known vocabulary mismatch problem arises severely because of the fine granularity of the task. Short queries,
which are usually the rule rather than the exception, aggravate the problem. Consequently, effective sentence retrieval methods
tend to apply some form of query expansion, usually based on pseudo-relevance feedback. Nevertheless, there are no extensive
studies comparing different statistical expansion strategies for sentence retrieval. In this work we study thoroughly the
effect of distinct statistical expansion methods on sentence retrieval. We start from a set of retrieved documents in which
relevant sentences have to be found. In our experiments different term selection strategies are evaluated and we provide empirical
evidence to show that expansion before sentence retrieval yields competitive performance. This is particularly novel because expansion for sentence retrieval is often done after sentence retrieval (i.e. expansion terms are mined from a ranked set of sentences) and there are no comparative results available between both
types of expansion. Furthermore, this comparison is particularly valuable because there are important implications in time
efficiency. We also carefully analyze expansion on weak and strong queries and demonstrate clearly that expanding queries
before sentence retrieval is not only more convenient for efficiency purposes, but also more effective when handling poor
queries. 相似文献
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Research on cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) has typically been restricted to settings using binary relevance assessments.
In this paper, we present evaluation results for dictionary-based CLIR using graded relevance assessments in a best match
retrieval environment. A text database containing newspaper articles and a related set of 35 search topics were used in the
tests. First, monolingual baseline queries were automatically formed from the topics. Secondly, source language topics (in
English, German, and Swedish) were automatically translated into the target language (Finnish), using structured target queries.
The effectiveness of the translated queries was compared to that of the monolingual queries. Thirdly, pseudo-relevance feedback
was used to expand the original target queries. CLIR performance was evaluated using three relevance thresholds: stringent,
regular, and liberal. When regular or liberal threshold was used, a reasonable performance was achieved. Using stringent threshold,
equally high performance could not be achieved. On all the relevance thresholds the performance of the translated queries
was successfully raised by pseudo-relevance feedback based query expansion. However, the performance of the stringent threshold
in relation to the other thresholds could not be raised by this method. 相似文献
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In Information Retrieval, since it is hard to identify users’ information needs, many approaches have been tried to solve
this problem by expanding initial queries and reweighting the terms in the expanded queries using users’ relevance judgments.
Although relevance feedback is most effective when relevance information about retrieved documents is provided by users, it
is not always available. Another solution is to use correlated terms for query expansion. The main problem with this approach
is how to construct the term-term correlations that can be used effectively to improve retrieval performance. In this study,
we try to construct query concepts that denote users’ information needs from a document space, rather than to reformulate initial queries using the term correlations
and/or users’ relevance feedback. To form query concepts, we extract features from each document, and then cluster the features into primitive concepts that are then used to form
query concepts. Experiments are performed on the Associated Press (AP) dataset taken from the TREC collection. The experimental evaluation
shows that our proposed framework called QCM (Query Concept Method) outperforms baseline probabilistic retrieval model on
TREC retrieval. 相似文献
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The problems of facilitating the processing of context queries in information retrieval systems (IRS) with proprietary data repositories are considered. A method for indexing fields with a large spread in values is proposed and its efficiency for real bases of information on abstracts is demonstrated. A method involving the use of SQL expressions within the IRS language is presented, as well as the processing of combined queries. 相似文献
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Document clustering offers the potential of supporting users in interactive retrieval, especially when users have problems
in specifying their information need precisely. In this paper, we present a theoretic foundation for optimum document clustering.
Key idea is to base cluster analysis and evalutation on a set of queries, by defining documents as being similar if they are
relevant to the same queries. Three components are essential within our optimum clustering framework, OCF: (1) a set of queries,
(2) a probabilistic retrieval method, and (3) a document similarity metric. After introducing an appropriate validity measure,
we define optimum clustering with respect to the estimates of the relevance probability for the query-document pairs under
consideration. Moreover, we show that well-known clustering methods are implicitly based on the three components, but that
they use heuristic design decisions for some of them. We argue that with our framework more targeted research for developing
better document clustering methods becomes possible. Experimental results demonstrate the potential of our considerations. 相似文献
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The application of word sense disambiguation (WSD) techniques to information retrieval (IR) has yet to provide convincing retrieval results. Major obstacles to effective WSD in IR include coverage and granularity problems of word sense inventories, sparsity of document context, and limited information provided by short queries. In this paper, to alleviate these issues, we propose the construction of latent context models for terms using latent Dirichlet allocation. We propose building one latent context per word, using a well principled representation of local context based on word features. In particular, context words are weighted using a decaying function according to their distance to the target word, which is learnt from data in an unsupervised manner. The resulting latent features are used to discriminate word contexts, so as to constrict query’s semantic scope. Consistent and substantial improvements, including on difficult queries, are observed on TREC test collections, and the techniques combines well with blind relevance feedback. Compared to traditional topic modeling, WSD and positional indexing techniques, the proposed retrieval model is more effective and scales well on large-scale collections. 相似文献
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针对常用信息检索模型存在的两大不足——检索提问与内容表达上的语义缺失与结果返回形式上的单文档局限,提出相应的解决方案,在此基础上进一步提出基于本体的族式返回检索模型,并就该模型中的部分关键问题,如族式返回、查询与文档表示以及语义匹配等进行讨论。 相似文献
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Finding useful information from large multimodal document collections such as the WWW without encountering numerous false positives poses a challenge to multimedia information retrieval systems (MMIR). This research addresses the problem of finding pictures. The fact that images do not appear in isolation, but rather with accompanying, collateral text is exploited. Taken independently, existing techniques for picture retrieval using (i) text-based and (ii) image-based methods have several limitations. This research presents a general model for multimodal information retrieval that addresses the following issues: (i) users' information need, (ii) expressing information need through composite, multimodal queries, and (iii) determining the most appropriate weighted combination of indexing techniques in order to best satisfy information need. A machine learning approach is proposed for the latter. The focus is on improving precision and recall in a MMIR system by optimally combining text and image similarity. Experiments are presented which demonstrate the utility of individual indexing systems in improving overall average precision. 相似文献
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A basic notion of probability theory is the event space, on which the probability measure is defined. A probabilistic model needs an event space. However, some classes of events (which we may want to model probabilistically) exhibit structure which does not fit well into the traditional event space notion. A simple one-to-many example is discussed at length. The information retrieval case, involving queries, documents and relevance, is analysed. The event space issue makes for some difficulty in comparing different probabilistic models in IR.Revised version of a paper presented at the MF/IR Workshop, SIGIR 2002, Tampere, Finland, under the title On Bayesian models and event spaces in information retrieval. 相似文献
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Armin Hust 《Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung》2005,19(4):224-238
Information Retrieval Systeme haben in den letzten Jahren nur geringe Verbesserungen in der Retrieval Performance erzielt.
Wir arbeiten an neuen Ans?tzen, dem sogenannten Collaborativen Information Retrieval (CIR), die das Potential haben, starke
Verbesserungen zu erreichen. CIR ist die Methode, mit der durch Ausnutzen von Informationen aus früheren Anfragen die Retrieval
Peformance für die aktuelle Anfrage verbessert wird. Wir haben ein eingeschr?nktes Szenario, in dem nur alte Anfragen und
dazu relevante Antwortdokumente zur Verfügung stehen. Neue Ans?tze für Methoden der Query Expansion führen unter diesen Bedingungen
zu Verbesserungen der Retrieval Performance .
The accuracy of ad-hoc document retrieval systems has reached a stable plateau in the last few years. We are working on so-called
collaborative information retrieval (CIR) systems which have the potential to overcome the current limits. We define CIR as
a task, where an information retrieval (IR) system uses information gathered from previous search processes from one or several
users to improve retrieval performance for the current user searching for information. We focus on a restricted setting in
CIR in which only old queries and correct answer documents to these queries are available for improving a new query. For this
restricted setting we propose new approaches for query expansion procedures. We show how CIR methods can improve overall IR
performance.
CR Subject Classification H.3.3 相似文献
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隐含语义检索及其应用 总被引：5，自引：1，他引：4
隐含语义检索(Latent Semantic Indexing, LSI) 是一种基于概念的文献检索方式。它区别于传统的基于用户查询条件与文档的单词匹配的文献检索方法, 根据文档与查询条件在语义上的关联而向用户提交查询结果。本文介绍了隐含语义检索在文献检索中的一种实现方法, 为文献检索提供了一种新的途径。 相似文献
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The Effects of Conjunction, Facet Structure, and Dictionary Combinations in Concept-Based Cross-Language Retrieval 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
The paper studies concept-based cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). The document collection was a subset of the TREC collection. The test requests were formed from TREC's health related topics. As translation dictionaries the study used a general dictionary and a domain-specific (=medical) dictionary. The effects of translation method, conjunction, and facet order on the effectiveness of concept-based cross-language queries were studied, and concept-based structuring of cross-language queries was compared to mechanical structuring based on the output of dictionaries. The performance of translated Finnish queries against English documents was compared to the performance of original English queries against the English documents, and the performance of different CLIR query types was compared with one another. No major difference was found between concept-based and mechanical structuring. The best translation method was a simultaneous look-up in the medical dictionary and the general dictionary, in which case cross-language queries performed as well as the original English queries. The results showed that especially at high exhaustivity (the number of mutually restrictive concepts in a request) levels cross-language queries perform well in relation to monolingual queries. This suggests that conjunction disambiguates cross-language queries. An extensive study was made of the relative importance of the concepts of requests. On the basis of the classification data of request concepts it was shown how the order of facets in a query affects cross-language as well as monolingual queries. 相似文献
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从信息检索理论出发，采用信息检索技术与集群技术相结合的模式构建一个数字图书馆检索系统架构，并在此架构基础上，以千万级的元数据，大规模模拟并发做了一系列实验，对实验结果进行分析和研究,最后对系统的扩展性进行推演。 相似文献
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旨在实现对给定的实体对象集匹配出尽可能宽的实体对象面,以帮助用户快速找到相关信息,尤其是那些需动态整合的特定领域的语义关联信息。分析Web文档中的实体对象结构及其关系,并借助Schema.org方案中的语义分类思想,提出构建具有语义特性的实体对象数据库建设方案。基于该数据库提出一个自适应的实体对象检索框架,该框架能对用户的查询意图进行分析并进行语义分类,形成一条条涵盖实体对象的查询语句,接着“智能地”选择、执行某些具有优先权的查询语句以匹配出那些保存在事实数据库中的相关实体对象。本研究旨在一定程度上实现“滚雪球”式的高效检索思想,满足智能检索技术的需求,促进以实体对象作为研究对象的情报理论研究工作的开展,并为智能情报检索技术的应用规划提供有用参考。 相似文献