Neural query performance prediction using weak supervision from multiple signals

H Zamani, WB Croft, JS Culpepper - The 41st international ACM SIGIR …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Predicting the performance of a search engine for a given query is a fundamental and
challenging task in information retrieval. Accurate performance predictors can be used in …

BERT-QPP: contextualized pre-trained transformers for query performance prediction

N Arabzadeh, M Khodabakhsh, E Bagheri - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Query Performance Prediction (QPP) is focused on estimating the difficulty of satisfying a
user query for a certain retrieval method. While most state of the art QPP methods are based …

Analytics methods to understand information retrieval effectiveness—a survey

J Mothe - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Information retrieval aims to retrieve the documents that answer users' queries. A typical
search process consists of different phases for which a variety of components have been …

Query variation performance prediction for systematic reviews

H Scells, L Azzopardi, G Zuccon… - The 41st International ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
When conducting systematic reviews, medical researchers heavily deliberate over the final
query to pose to the information retrieval system. Given the possible query variations that …

Noisy perturbations for estimating query difficulty in dense retrievers

N Arabzadeh, R Hamidi Rad, M Khodabakhsh… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Estimating query difficulty, also known as Query Performance Prediction (QPP), is
concerned with assessing the retrieval quality of a ranking method for an input query. Most …

Topic difficulty: Collection and query formulation effects

JS Culpepper, G Faggioli, N Ferro… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Several recent studies have explored the interaction effects between topics, systems,
corpora, and components when measuring retrieval effectiveness. However, all of these …

Information needs, queries, and query performance prediction

O Zendel, A Shtok, F Raiber, O Kurland… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The query performance prediction (QPP) task is to estimate the effectiveness of a search
performed in response to a query with no relevance judgments. Existing QPP methods do …

Query reformulation in E-commerce search

S Hirsch, I Guy, A Nus, A Dagan… - Proceedings of the 43rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The importance of e-commerce platforms has driven forward a growing body of research
work on e-commerce search. We present the first large-scale and in-depth study of query …

Estimating Gaussian mixture models in the local neighbourhood of embedded word vectors for query performance prediction

D Roy, D Ganguly, M Mitra, GJF Jones - Information processing & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The study of query performance prediction (QPP) in information retrieval (IR) aims to predict
retrieval effectiveness. The specificity of the underlying information need of a query often …

A semantic approach to post-retrieval query performance prediction

P Jafarzadeh, F Ensan - Information Processing & Management, 2022 - Elsevier
The importance of query performance prediction has been widely acknowledged in the
literature, especially for query expansion, refinement, and interpolating different retrieval …