{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/embedding-meta-textual-information-for","title":"Embedding Meta-Textual Information for Improved Learning to Rank","arxiv_id":"2010.16313","date":"2020-10-30","proceeding":"COLING 2020 8","authors":["Toshitaka Kuwa","Shigehiko Schamoni","Stefan Riezler"],"abstract":"Neural approaches to learning term embeddings have led to improved computation of similarity and ranking in information retrieval (IR). So far neural representation learning has not been extended to meta-textual information that is readily available for many IR tasks, for example, patent classes in prior-art retrieval, topical information in Wikipedia articles, or product categories in e-commerce data. We present a framework that learns embeddings for meta-textual categories, and optimizes a pairwise ranking objective for improved matching based on combined embeddings of textual and meta-textual information. We show considerable gains in an experimental evaluation on cross-lingual retrieval in the Wikipedia domain for three language pairs, and in the Patent domain for one language pair. Our results emphasize that the mode of combining different types of information is crucial for model improvement.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16313v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.16313v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"articles","task_name":"Articles"},{"task_slug":"information-retrieval","task_name":"Information Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"learning-to-rank","task_name":"Learning-To-Rank"},{"task_slug":"representation-learning","task_name":"Representation Learning"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"metaclir","name":"MetaCLIR","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}