Query performance prediction for information retrieval based on covering topic score

	Query performance prediction for information retrieval based on covering topic score
	Lang, Hao 1; Wang, Bin 1; Jones, Gareth 2; Li, Jin-Tao 1; Ding, Fan 1; Liu, Yi-Xuan 1
	2008-07-01
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISSN	1000-9000
卷号	23 期号:4 页码:590-601
摘要	We present a statistical method called Covering Topic Score (CTS) to predict query performance for information retrieval. Estimation is based on how well the topic of a user's query is covered by documents retrieved from a certain retrieval system. Our approach is conceptually simple and intuitive, and can be easily extended to incorporate features beyond bag-of-words such as phrases and proximity of terms. Experiments demonstrate that CTS significantly correlates with query performance in a variety of TREC test collections, and in particular CTS gains more prediction power benefiting from features of phrases and proximity of terms. We compare CTS with previous state-of-the-art methods for query performance prediction including clarity score and robustness score. Our experimental results show that CTS consistently performs better than, or at least as well as, these other methods. In addition to its high effectiveness, CTS is also shown to have very low computational complexity, meaning that it can be practical for real applications.
关键词	information storage and retrieval information search and retrieval query performance prediction covering topic score
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS记录号	WOS:000257809900008
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
引用统计	被引频次：6[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/11421
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Lang, Hao
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Dublin City Univ, Sch Comp, Dublin 9, Ireland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lang, Hao,Wang, Bin,Jones, Gareth,et al. Query performance prediction for information retrieval based on covering topic score[J]. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,2008,23(4):590-601.
APA	Lang, Hao,Wang, Bin,Jones, Gareth,Li, Jin-Tao,Ding, Fan,&Liu, Yi-Xuan.(2008).Query performance prediction for information retrieval based on covering topic score.JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,23(4),590-601.
MLA	Lang, Hao,et al."Query performance prediction for information retrieval based on covering topic score".JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 23.4(2008):590-601.