NPRF: A Neural Pseudo Relevance Feedback Framework for Ad-hoc Information Retrieval
Canjia Li, Yingfei Sun, Ben He, Le Wang, Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Le Sun, Jungang Xu
Abstract
Pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) is commonly used to boost the performance of traditional information retrieval (IR) models by using top-ranked documents to identify and weight new query terms, thereby reducing the effect of query-document vocabulary mismatches. While neural retrieval models have recently demonstrated strong results for ad-hoc retrieval, combining them with PRF is not straightforward due to incompatibilities between existing PRF approaches and neural architectures. To bridge this gap, we propose an end-to-end neural PRF framework that can be used with existing neural IR models by embedding different neural models as building blocks. Extensive experiments on two standard test collections confirm the effectiveness of the proposed NPRF framework in improving the performance of two state-of-the-art neural IR models.- Anthology ID:
- D18-1478
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- October-November
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Brussels, Belgium
- Editors:
- Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4482–4491
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D18-1478
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D18-1478
- Cite (ACL):
- Canjia Li, Yingfei Sun, Ben He, Le Wang, Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Le Sun, and Jungang Xu. 2018. NPRF: A Neural Pseudo Relevance Feedback Framework for Ad-hoc Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4482–4491, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- NPRF: A Neural Pseudo Relevance Feedback Framework for Ad-hoc Information Retrieval (Li et al., EMNLP 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/D18-1478.pdf
- Code
- ucasir/NPRF
- Data
- Robust04