Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval

H Zaragoza, D Hiemstra, M Tipping - Proceedings of the 26th annual …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on …, 2003dl.acm.org
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed
estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including
Laplace and Bayes-smoothing) are approximations to the Bayesian predictive distribution. In
this paper we derive the full predictive distribution in a form amenable to implementation by
classical IR models, and then compare it to other currently used estimators. In our
experiments the proposed model outperforms Bayes-smoothing, and its combination with …
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-smoothing) are approximations to the Bayesian predictive distribution. In this paper we derive the full predictive distribution in a form amenable to implementation by classical IR models, and then compare it to other currently used estimators. In our experiments the proposed model outperforms Bayes-smoothing, and its combination with linear interpolation smoothing outperforms all other estimators.
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