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Boaz Petersil
dblp:183/0627
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2016
—ORCID · none
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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 72% Data mining · 28% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data mining › dimensionality reduction › feature selection
feature weighting |
0.2 | 1 | 2016 | That's Not My Question: Learning to Weight Unmatched Terms in CQA Vertical Search · SIGIR 2016 |
Information retrieval › ranking
learning to rank |
0.2 | 1 | 2016 | That's Not My Question: Learning to Weight Unmatched Terms in CQA Vertical Search · SIGIR 2016 |
Information retrieval › retrieval models
term weighting |
0.2 | 1 | 2016 | That's Not My Question: Learning to Weight Unmatched Terms in CQA Vertical Search · SIGIR 2016 |
Information retrieval › question answering
community question answering |
0.1 | 1 | 2016 | That's Not My Question: Learning to Weight Unmatched Terms in CQA Vertical Search · SIGIR 2016 |
Information retrieval › web search
vertical search |
0.1 | 1 | 2016 | That's Not My Question: Learning to Weight Unmatched Terms in CQA Vertical Search · SIGIR 2016 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
learning to rank · 0.2distributional similarity · 0.2click-through log analysis · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | That's Not My Question: Learning to Weight Unmatched Terms in CQA Vertical SearchabstractA fundamental task in Information Retrieval (IR) is term weighting. Early IR theory considered both the presence or absence of all terms in the lexicon for ranking and needed to weight them all. Yet, as the size of lexicons grew and models became too complex, common weighting models preferred to aggregate only the weights of the query terms that are matched in candidate documents. Thus, unmatched term contribution in these models is only considered indirectly, such as in probability smoothing with corpus distribution, or in weight normalization by document length. In this work we propose a novel term weighting model that directly assesses the weights of unmatched terms, and show its benefits. Specifically, we propose a Learning To Rank framework, in which features corresponding to matched terms are also "mirrored" in similar features that account only for unmatched terms. The relative importance of each feature is learned via a click-through query log. As a test case, we consider vertical search in Community-based Question Answering(CQA) sites from Web queries. Queries that result in viewing CQA content often contain fine grained information needs and benefit more from unmatched term weighting. We assess our model both via manual evaluation and via automatic evaluation over a clickthrough log. Our results show consistent improvement in retrieval when unmatched information is taken into account. This holds both when only identical terms are considered matched, and when related terms are matched via distributional similarity. Boaz Petersil, Avihai Mejer, Idan Szpektor, Koby Crammer |
SIGIR | 1 |