Relevance Ranking and Relevance Feedback Carl Staelin
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Queries return either too few or too many results Users are generally looking for the best document with a particular piece of information Users don’t want to look through hundreds of documents to locate the information
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Document score is influenced by similarity to previously user-rated documents
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Queries
Most queries are short
One to three words
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“Saturn”
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Sample “Internal” Features
Term frequency Location of term appearance in document Capitalization Font Relative font size Bold, italic, … Appearance in
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Sample “External” Features <br />
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Document citations <br />
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Location within website (e.g. height in the directory structure or click distance from /) Popularity of pages from similar queries <br />
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How often is it cited? How important are the documents that cited it? Relevance of text surrounding hyperlink Relevance of documents citing this document<br />
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Search engine links often connect through search site so they can track click-throughs<br />
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Relevance Feedback Often an information retrieval system does not return useful information on the first try! If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again Find out from the user which results were most relevant, and try to find more documents like them and less like the others Assumption: relevant documents are somehow similar to each other and different from irrelevant documents Question: how?<br />
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Create new queries with user feedback Create new queries automatically<br />
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Re-compute document weights with new information Expand or modify the query to more accurately reflect the user’s desires<br />
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Vector Space ReWeighting <br />
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Given a query Q with its query vector q Initial, user-annotated results D <br />
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di are the document weight vectors<br />
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Update weights on query vector q Re-compute similarity score to new q<br />
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q' = α q + (β /|Dr|)∑di ∈Dr di - (γ /|Dn|)∑di ∈Dn di<br />
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q' = α q + β ∑di ∈Dr di - γ ∑di ∈Dn di<br />
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q' = α q + β ∑di ∈Dr di - γ maxdi ∈Dn (di )<br />
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Vector Space Re-Weighting <br />
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The initial query vector q0 will have non-zero weights only for terms appearing in the query The query vector update process can add weight to terms that don’t appear in the original query <br />
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Automatic expansion of the original query terms<br />
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Some terms can end up having negative weight! <br />
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Probabilistic Re-Weighting <br />
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After initial search, get feedback from user on document relevance Use relevance information to recalculate term weights Re-compute similarity and try again…<br />
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Probabilistic Re-Weighting Remember from last time: Sim ∑ w w (ln(P(t |R)/(1-P(t |R))) + ij k ik jk k k ln((1-P(tk|R))/P(tk|R))) <br />
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P(tk|R) = ni /N; ni = #docs containing tk<br />
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=> Sim = ∑ w w ln((N - n )/n ) ij k ik jk i i<br />
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Probabilistic Re-Weighting Given document relevance feedback: D = set of relevant retrieved docs r <br />
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Drk = subset of Dr containing tk<br />
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=> P(t |R) = |D | / |D | k rk r <br />
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P(tk|R) = (ni - |Drk |) / (N - |Dr|)<br />
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Substituting the new probabilities gives Simij = ∑k wik wjk ln((|Drk| / (|Dr|-|Drk|)) ((ni - |Drk|) / (N - |Dr|- (ni - |Drk|)))) However small values of |Drk|, |Dr| can cause problems, so usually a fudge factor is added<br />
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Effectively updates query term weights No automatic query expansion <br />
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Terms not in the initial query are never considered<br />
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Query Expansion Via Local Clustering <br />
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Create new queries automatically Cluster initial search results Use clusters to create new queries Compute Sk(n), which is the set of keywords similar to tk that should be added to the query D = set of retrieved documents V = vocabulary of D<br />
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Association Clustering Find terms that frequently co-occur within documents s = c = ∑ f f kl kl i ik il Or, normalized association matrix s s = c / (c kl kl kk + cll – ckl ) Association cluster Sk(n) <br />
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Metric Clustering Measure distance between keyword appearances in a document r(t , t ) = # words between t and t k l k l <br />
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ckl = ∑k∑l (1 / r(tk, tl))<br />
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Normalized skl = ckl / (|tk| |tl|)<br />
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|tk| = # of words stemmed to tk<br />
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Terms with similar association clusters are more likely to be synonyms sk is the row vector from association clustering skl<br />
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Query Expansion Via Local Context Analysis Combine information from initial search results and global corpus • Break retrieved documents into fixed-length passages • Treat each passage as a document, and rank order them using the initial query • Compute the weight of each term in top ranked passages using a TFIDF-like similarity with query • Take the top m terms and add them to the original query with weight: •<br />
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Local Context Analysis Compute weight of each term in top ranked passages N = # of passages n = # of passages containing t k k <br />
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Examine all documents in the corpus Create a corpus-wide data structure that is used by all queries<br />
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Similarity Thesaurus <br />
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itfi = ln(|V| / |Vi|) wik = ((0.5 + 0.5fik/maxi(fik))itfi) / (∑j(0.5 + 0.5fjk/maxj(fjk))2itfi2) ckl = ∑i wik wil<br />
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SONIA Feedback SONIA is a meta-search engine Clusters search results Extracts keywords describing each cluster Allow user to expand search within cluster<br />
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ifile Feedback ifile is an automatic mail filer for mh Email is automatically filed in folders User refile actions provide feedback on poor classification decisions Does not use positive feedback <br />
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Search Engine Feedback Search engines rarely allow relevance feedback <br />
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Meta-Search Engine Feedback Meta-search engines collect and process results from several search engines <br />
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Pet Peeves What are your pet peeves when trying to locate information from <br />
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Information Types What types of information do you typically try to find? <br />
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