The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval

Authors:
Guido Zuccon;Leif A. Azzopardi;Keith Rijsbergen
Affiliations:
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Venue:
ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory
Year:
2009

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Abstract

While the Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval provides the basis for formal models, it makes a very strong assumption regarding the dependence between documents. However, it has been observed that in real situations this assumption does not always hold. In this paper we propose a reformulation of the Probability Ranking Principle based on quantum theory. Quantum probability theory naturally includes interference effects between events. We posit that this interference captures the dependency between the judgement of document relevance. The outcome is a more sophisticated principle, the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle, that provides a more sensitive ranking which caters for interference/dependence between documents' relevance.