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Query Performance Prediction Using Reference Lists

delete2016-06-09
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Anna Shtok *
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Oren Kurland
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David Carmel
DOI:10.1145/2926790delete
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The task of query performance prediction is to estimate the effectiveness of search performed in response to a query when no relevance judgments are available. We present a novel probabilistic analysis of the performance prediction task. The analysis gives rise to a general prediction framework that uses pseudo-effective or ineffective document lists that are retrieved in response to the query. These lists serve as reference to the result list at hand, the effectiveness of which we want to predict. We show that many previously proposed prediction methods can be explained using our framework. More generally, we shed new light on existing prediction methods and establish formal common grounds to seemingly different prediction approaches. In addition, we formally demonstrate the connection between prediction using reference lists and fusion of retrieved lists, and provide empirical support to this connection. Through an extensive empirical exploration, we study various factors that affect the quality of prediction using reference lists.
Keywords:
Query performance prediction
reference lists
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems cover
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
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yahoo! inc
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Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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