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Promoting ranking diversity for biomedical information retrieval using wikipedia

  • Xiaoshi Yin*
  • , Xiangji Huang
  • , Zhoujun Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • York University Toronto

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a cost-based re-ranking method to promote ranking diversity for biomedical information retrieval. The proposed method concerns with finding passages that cover many different aspects of a query topic. First, aspects covered by retrieved passages are detected and explicitly presented by Wikipedia concepts. Then, an aspect filter based on a two-stage model is introduced. It ranks the detected aspects in decreasing order of the probability that an aspect is generated by the query. Finally, retrieved passages are re-ranked using the proposed cost-based re-ranking method which ranks a passage according to the number of new aspects covered by the passage and the query-relevance of aspects covered by the passage. A series of experiments conducted on the TREC 2006 and 2007 Genomics collections demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in promoting ranking diversity for biomedical information retrieval.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages495-507
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3642122744, 9783642122743
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2010 - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Duration: 28 Mar 201031 Mar 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5993 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityMilton Keynes
Period28/03/1031/03/10

Keywords

  • Biomedical IR
  • Ranking diversity
  • Re-ranking

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