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Deep Relevance Ranking Using Enhanced Document-Query Interactions

5 Sep 2018EMNLP 2018 10arXiv:1809.01682archive 2025-07-28

Ryan McDonald, Georgios-Ioannis Brokos, Ion Androutsopoulos

We explore several new models for document relevance ranking, building upon the Deep Relevance Matching Model (DRMM) of Guo et al. (2016). Unlike DRMM, which uses context-insensitive encodings of terms and query-document term interactions, we inject rich context-sensitive encodings throughout our models, inspired by PACRR's (Hui et al., 2017) convolutional n-gram matching features, but extended in several ways including multiple views of query and document inputs. We test our models on datasets from the BIOASQ question answering challenge (Tsatsaronis et al., 2015) and TREC ROBUST 2004 (Voorhees, 2005), showing they outperform BM25-based baselines, DRMM, and PACRR.

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Ad-Hoc Information RetrievalQuestion Answering

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval TREC Robust04 POSIT-DRMM-MV MAP 0.271 #7 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval TREC Robust04 POSIT-DRMM-MV P@20 0.389 #7 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval TREC Robust04 POSIT-DRMM-MV nDCG@20 0.464 #7 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval TREC Robust04 PACRR MAP 0.258 #10 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval TREC Robust04 PACRR P@20 0.374 #10 of 21 Archive leaderboard report
Ad-Hoc Information Retrieval TREC Robust04 PACRR nDCG@20 0.445 #10 of 21 Archive leaderboard report

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