Query Expansion based on Central Tendency and PRF for Monolingual Retrieval

Rekha Vaidyanathan, Sujoy Das and Namita Srivastava
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Rekha Vaidyanathan: MANIT, Bhopal, India
Sujoy Das: MANIT, Bhopal, India
Namita Srivastava: MANIT, Bhopal, India

International Journal of Information Retrieval Research (IJIRR), 2016, vol. 6, issue 4, 30-50

Abstract: Query Expansion is the process of selecting relevant words that are closest in meaning and context to that of the keyword(s) of query. In this paper, a statistical method of automatically selecting contextually related words for expansion, after identifying a pattern in their score, is proposed. Words appearing in top 10 relevant document is given a score w.r.t partitions they appear in. Proposed statistical method, identifies a pattern of central tendency in the high scores and selects the right group of words for query expansion. The objective of the method is to keep the expanded query with minimum words (light), and still give statistically significant MAP values compared to the original query. Experimental results show 17-21% improvement of MAP over the original unexpanded query as baseline but achieves a performance similar to that of the state of the art query expansion models - Bo1 and KL. FIRE 2011 Adhoc English and Hindi data for 50 topics each were used for experiments with Terrier as the Retrieval Engine.

Date: 2016
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