Title
Enhanced News Retrieval: Passages Lead the Way!
Abstract
We observe that most relevant terms in unstructured news articles are primarily concentrated towards the beginning and the end of the document. Exploiting this observation, we propose a novel version of the classical BM25 weighting model, called BM25 Passage (BM25P), which scores query results by computing a linear combination of term statistics in the different portions of news articles. Our experimentation, conducted using three publicly available news datasets, demonstrates that BM25P markedly outperforms BM25 in term of effectiveness by up to 17.44% in [email protected] and 85% in [email protected]
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3331184.3331373
Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Keywords
Field
DocType
bm25, news retrieval, weighting model
Linear combination,Weighting,Information retrieval,Computer science
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6172-9
1
0.38
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matteo Catena1143.58
Ophir Frieder23300419.55
Cristina Ioana Muntean3328.28
Franco Maria Nardini431436.52
Raffaele Perego51471108.91
Nicola Tonellotto637739.90