Evaluating the potential of explicit phrases for retrieval quality

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Broschart;Klaus Berberich;Ralf Schenkel

  • Affiliations:
  • Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany;Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and system-identified phrases with a standard score and a proximity-aware score, and shows that an optimal choice of phrases, including term permutations, can significantly improve query performance.