Machine learning ranking for structured information retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Noël Vittaut;Patrick Gallinari

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Paris, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider the Structured Information Retrieval task which consists in ranking nested textual units according to their relevance for a given query, in a collection of structured documents. We propose to improve the performance of a baseline Information Retrieval system by using a learning ranking algorithm which operates on scores computed from document elements and from their local structural context. This model is trained to optimize a Ranking Loss criterion using a training set of annotated examples composed of queries and relevance judgments on a subset of the document elements. The model can produce a ranked list of documents elements which fulfills a given information need expressed in the query. We analyze the performance of our algorithm on the INEX collection and compare it to a baseline model which is an adaptation of Okapi to Structured Information Retrieval.