Re-ranking search results using language models of query-specific clusters |
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| Authors: | Oren Kurland |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, 32000, Israel |
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| Abstract: | To obtain high precision at top ranks by a search performed in response to a query, researchers have proposed a cluster-based
re-ranking paradigm: clustering an initial list of documents that are the most highly ranked by some initial search, and using
information induced from these (often called) query-specific clusters for re-ranking the list. However, results concerning the effectiveness of various automatic cluster-based re-ranking methods have been inconclusive. We show that using query-specific clusters for automatic re-ranking
of top-retrieved documents is effective with several methods in which clusters play different roles, among which is the smoothing of document language models. We do so by adapting previously-proposed cluster-based retrieval approaches, which are based on (static) query-independent
clusters for ranking all documents in a corpus, to the re-ranking setting wherein clusters are query-specific. The best performing
method that we develop outperforms both the initial document-based ranking and some previously proposed cluster-based re-ranking
approaches; furthermore, this algorithm consistently outperforms a state-of-the-art pseudo-feedback-based approach. In further
exploration we study the performance of cluster-based smoothing methods for re-ranking with various (soft and hard) clustering
algorithms, and demonstrate the importance of clusters in providing context from the initial list through a comparison to
using single documents to this end.
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| Keywords: | Query-specific clusters Cluster-based language models Cluster-based re-ranking Cluster-based smoothing |
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