RALI-OLST-ILFC Weekly Talks
On Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. (Montreal time), we hold a one-hour talk on a language processing or linguistics topic. It is typically offered in hybrid mode (in person/videoconference). Once a month, the talk is organized by the French research group Linguistique Informatique, Formelle et de Terrain.
Parameterized Concept Weighting For Information Retrieval
Michael Bendersky
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wednesday 14 September 2011 at 11:30 AM
Salle 3195, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
The majority of the current information retrieval models weight the concepts in the search query (e.g., query terms or phrases) in an unsupervised manner, based solely on the collection statistics. In this talk, I will present a parameterized concept weighting framework that goes beyond the unsupervised estimation of query concept weights. In this framework, the weight of each query concept is automatically learned using a parameterized combination of diverse importance features. In addition, the proposed framework is able to learn importance weights not only for the concepts that are explicitly present in the query, but also for the latent concepts that can be associated with the query through several query expansion techniques. Extensive empirical evaluation demonstrates that the parameterized concept weighting consistently and significantly outperforms a wide range of state-of-the-art retrieval models.
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