TY - GEN
T1 - The search duel
T2 - 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2014
AU - Izsak, Peter
AU - Raiber, Fiana
AU - Kurland, Oren
AU - Tennenholtz, Moshe
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - How can a search engine with a relatively weak relevance ranking function compete with a search engine that has a much stronger ranking function? This dual challenge, which to the best of our knowledge has not been addressed in previous work, entails an interesting bi-modal utility function for the weak search engine. That is, the goal is to produce in response to a query a document result list whose effectiveness does not fall much behind that of the strong search engine; and, which is quite different than that of the strong engine. We present a per-query algorithmic approach that leverages fundamental retrieval principles such as pseudofeedback- based relevance modeling. We demonstrate the merits of our approach using TREC data.
AB - How can a search engine with a relatively weak relevance ranking function compete with a search engine that has a much stronger ranking function? This dual challenge, which to the best of our knowledge has not been addressed in previous work, entails an interesting bi-modal utility function for the weak search engine. That is, the goal is to produce in response to a query a document result list whose effectiveness does not fall much behind that of the strong search engine; and, which is quite different than that of the strong engine. We present a per-query algorithmic approach that leverages fundamental retrieval principles such as pseudofeedback- based relevance modeling. We demonstrate the merits of our approach using TREC data.
KW - Dueling algorithms
KW - Search engine competition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904545483&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2600428.2609474
DO - 10.1145/2600428.2609474
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AN - SCOPUS:84904545483
SN - 9781450322591
T3 - SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
SP - 919
EP - 922
BT - SIGIR 2014 - Proceedings of the 37th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Y2 - 6 July 2014 through 11 July 2014
ER -