An axiomatic approach to exploit term dependencies in language model

  • Authors:
  • Fan Ding;Bin Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • AIRS'08 Proceedings of the 4th Asia information retrieval conference on Information retrieval technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

One of important problems of dependence retrieval model is the challenge to integrate both single words and dependencies in one weighting schema. Although there are many retrieval models that exploit term dependencies in language modeling framework, seldom of them simultaneously study the problem on different query types, e.g., short queries and verbose queries. In this paper, we derive an axiomatic dependence model by defining several basic desirable constraints that a retrieval model should meet. The experiment results show that our model significantly and robustly improves retrieval accuracy over the baseline (unigram model) in verbose queries and achieves better performance than some state-of-art dependence models.