Estimation methods for ranking recent information

Miles Efron, Gene Golovchinsky

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

Temporal aspects of documents can impact relevance for certain kinds of queries. In this paper, we build on earlier work of modeling temporal information. We propose an extension to the Query Likelihood Model that incorporates query-specific information to estimate rate parameters, and we introduce a temporal factor into language model smoothing and query expansion using pseudo-relevance feedback. We evaluate these extensions using a Twitter corpus and two newspaper article collections. Results suggest that, compared to prior approaches, our models are more effective at capturing the temporal variability of relevance associated with some topics.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages495-504
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781450309349
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011 - Beijing, China
Duration: Jul 24 2011Jul 28 2011

Publication series

NameSIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Other

Other34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period7/24/117/28/11

Keywords

  • Information retrieval
  • Microblogs
  • Ranking algorithms
  • Time

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems

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