Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures

  • Authors:
  • Leif Azzopardi;Mark Girolami;Keith van Risjbergen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Paisley, UK;University of Paisley, UK;University of Glasgow, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of an aspect based language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding information retrieval performance obtained. It is observed, on the corpora considered, that the perplexity of the language model has a systematic relationship with the achievable precision recall performance though it is not statistically significant.