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This requires a sequential storage of the postings in the index, with the postings pointer in the dictionary being used to control the location of the read operation, and the number of postings (also stored in the dictionary) being used to control the length of the read (and the separation of the butfer). This necessity for ease of update also changes the postings structure, which becomes a series of linked variable length lists capable of infinite update expansion. Average response time 0.28 0.58 1.1 1.6 14.7.1 Handling Both Stemmed and Unstemmed Query Terms RAGHAVAN, V. V., H. P. SHI, and C. T. YU. "A Performance Yardstick for Test Collections." A larger data set of 38,304 records had dictionaries on the order of 250,000 lines (250,000 unique terms, including some numerals) and an average of 88 postings per record. 1976. "A Review of the Use of Inverted Files for Best Match Searching in Information Retrieval Systems." 1985. This makes the searching process relatively independent of the number of retrieved records--only the sort for the final set of ranks is affected by the number of records being sorted. J. NOREAULT, T., M. KOLL, and M. MCGILL. This hybrid dictionary is in alphabetic stem order, with the terms sorted within the stem, and contains the stem, the number of postings and IDF of the stem, the term, the number of postings and IDF of the term, a bit to indicate if the term is stemmed or not stemmed, and the offset of the postings for this stem/term combination. The list of ranked documents is returned as before, but only documents passing the added restriction are given to the user. -------------------------------------------------------- SALTON, G., and C. S. YANG. A simple ranking algorithm would give a higher rank to a document that contained all of the keywords in the query and a lower rank to one that contained only some of the keywords. "Implementing Ranking Strategies Using Text Signatures." It was also suggested that clustering could improve the performance of retrieval by pregrouping like documents (Jardine and van Rijsbergen 1971). J. American Society for Information Science, in press. Terms that have no stem for a given data set only have the basic 2-element postings record. A block of storage containing an "accumulator" for every unique record id is reserved, usually on the order of 300 Kbytes for large data sets. That study also suggests that the ability of a ranking system to use the smaller inverted files discussed in this chapter makes storage and efficiency of ranking techniques competitive with that of signature files. London: Butterworths. M. Williams, pp. Information Processing and Management, 25(6), 665-76. BOOKSTEIN, A., and D. KRAFT. 117-51. J. 1988. 1983. SALTON, G., and M. E. LESK. 1. 1989), which is based on a two-stage search using signature files for a first cut and then ranking retrieved documents by term-weighting. SALTON, G., and C. BUCKLEY. This additional weighting needs to be considered with respect to the particular data set being used for searching. Association for Computing Machinery, 25(1), 67-80. 117-51. The advantage of this term-weighting option is that updating (assuming only the addition of new records and not modification of old ones) would not require the postings to be changed. Size of Data Set 1.6 Meg 50 Meg 268 Meg 806 Meg A larger data set of 38,304 records had dictionaries on the order of 250,000 lines (250,000 unique terms, including some numerals) and an average of 88 postings per record. There are four major options for storing weights in the postings file, each having advantages and disadvantages. CROFT, W. B., and L. RUGGLES. First, it is very important to normalize the within-document frequency in some manner, both to moderate the effect of high-frequency terms in a document (i.e., a term appearing 20 times is not 20 times as important as one appearing only once) and to compensate for document length. This tailoring seems to be particularly critical for manually indexed or controlled vocabulary data where use of within-document frequencies may even hurt performance. "Operations Research Applied to Document Indexing and Retrieval Decisions." J. Terms that have no stem for a given data set only have the basic 2-element postings record. Ranking retrieval systems and relevance feedback have been closely connected throughout the past 25 years of research. The subsetting or segmenting is done in reverse chronological order. User weighting can also be considered as additional weighting, although this type of weighting has generally proven unsatisfactory in the past. 1988. Croft and Savino (1988) provide a ranking technique that combines the IDF measure with an estimated normalized within-document frequency, using simple modifications of the standard signature file technique (see the chapter on signature files). BOOKSTEIN, A., and D. KRAFT. Various methods have been developed for dealing with this problem. Whereas there is more flexibility available here than in the cosine measure, the need for providing normalization of within-document frequencies is more critical. That study also suggests that the ability of a ranking system to use the smaller inverted files discussed in this chapter makes storage and efficiency of ranking techniques competitive with that of signature files. "The Use of Hierarchic Clustering in Information Retrieval." The search time for this method is heavily dependent on the number of retrieved records and becomes prohibitive when used on large data sets. Information Storage and Retrieval, 9(11), 619-33. The bucket is created based on user cookies. Documentation, 31(4), 266-72. "A Probabilistic Approach to Automatic Keyword Indexing." Information Processing and Management, 15(3), 133-44. J. KNUTH, D. E. 1973. When all the query terms have been handled, accumulators with nonzero weights are sorted to produce the final ranked record list. The other pruning techniques mentioned earlier should result in the same magnitude of time savings, making pruning techniques an important issue for ranking retrieval systems needing fast response times. freqij = the frequency of term i in document j In some cases, however, a stem is produced that leads to improper results, causing query failure. The indexing and retrieval were based on the singular value decomposition (related to factor analysis) of a term-document matrix from the entire document collection. Signature files have also been used in SIBRIS, an operational information retrieval system (Wade et al. maxfreqj = the maximum frequency of any term in document j (pruning) New York: McGraw-Hill. DENNIS, S. F. 1964. Average number of 4.1 3.5 3.5 3.5 1990. Although this seems a tedious method of handling phrases or field restrictions, it can be done in parallel with user browsing operations so that users are often unaware that a second processing step is occurring. The use of the fixed block of storage to accumulate record weights that is described in the basic search process (section 14.6) becomes impossible for this huge data set. This necessity for ease of update also changes the postings structure, which becomes a series of linked variable length lists capable of infinite update expansion. J. American Society for Information Science, in press. ROBERTSON, S. E., and K. SPARCK JONES. "Computer Evaluation of Indexing and Text Processing." 1. J. American Society for Information Science, in press. ROBERTSON, S. E., and K. SPARCK JONES. Documentation, 27(4), 254-66. Information Processing and Management, 25(6), 665-76. Using the following examples DOSZKOCS, T. E. 1982. -------------------------------------------------------- (National Bureau of Standards Miscellaneous Publication 269). A possible alternative is the noise or entropy measure tried in several experiments . HARMAN, D. 1986. The term-weighting is done in the search process using the raw frequencies stored in the postings lists. CROFT, W. B., and P. SAVINO. Documentation, 28(1), 11-20. Sort the accumulators with nonzero weights to produce the final ranked record list. The various term-weighting schemes were not combined in this experiment. One alternative ranking using the inner product (but without adjustable constants) is given below. 3. Additionally, relevance feedback reweighting is difficult using this option. Harman and Candela (1990) experimented with various pruning algorithms using this method, looking for an algorithm that not only improved response time, but did not significantly hurt retrieval results. This was done in Croft's experimental re trieval system (Croft and Ruggles 1984). A simple extension of the basic search process in section 14.6 can be made that allows noncomplex Boolean statements to be handled (see section 14.8.4). This extension, however, limits the Boolean capability and increases response time when using Boolean operators. This implies that the file to be searched should be as short as possible, and for this reason the single file shown containing the terms, record ids, and frequencies is usually split into two pieces for searching: the dictionary containing the term, along with statistics about that term such as number of postings and IDF, and then a pointer to the location of the postings file for that term. 1987. 1990. These records are still sorted, but serve only to increase sort time, as they are seldom, if ever, useful. Although it is possible to build a ranking retrieval system without some type of index (either by storing and searching all terms in a document or by using signature files in ranking such as described in section 14.8.5), the use of these indices improves efficiency by several orders of magnitude. 1974. Their inverted file consists of the dictionary containing the terms and pointers to the postings file, but the dictionary is not alphabetically sorted. 1960. Using the following examples JARDINE, N., and C. J. For both controlled and uncontrolled vocabulary he found a significant difference in the performance of similarity measures, with a group of about 15 different similarity measures all performing significantly better than the rest. This was the option taken by Harman and Candela (1990) in searching on 806 megabytes of data. Examples of these types of restrictions would be requirements involving Boolean operators, proximity operators, special publication dates, specific authors, or the use of phrases instead of simple terms. maxfreqj = the maximum frequency of any term in document j She used four collections, with indexing generally taken from manually extracted keywords instead of using full-text indexing, and with all queries based on manual keywords. All processing would be done in the search routines. First, it is very important to normalize the within-document frequency in some manner, both to moderate the effect of high-frequency terms in a document (i.e., a term appearing 20 times is not 20 times as important as one appearing only once) and to compensate for document length. freqij = the frequency of term i in document j The same procedure could be done for Croft's normalized frequency or any other normalized frequency used in an inner product similarity function, assuming appropriate record statistics have been stored during parsing. CUTTING, D., and J. PEDERSEN. 251-62. Because of the predominance of Boolean retrieval systems, several attempts have been made to integrate the ranking model and the Boolean model (for a summary, see Bookstein [1985]). VAN RIJSBERGEN. The response time for the 806 megabyte data set assumes parallel processing of the three parts of the data set, and would be longer if the data set could not be processed in parallel. London: Butterworths. Further, they showed that use of the cosine correlation with frequency term-weighting provided better performance than the overlap similarity because of the automatic inclusion of document length normalization by the cosine similarity function (again, the results varied somewhat depending on the test collection used). N = the number of documents in the collection 1981. Either of the following normalized within-document frequency measures can be safely used. MARON, M. E., and J. L. KUHNS. The hybrid postings list saves the storage necessary for one copy of the record id by merging the stemmed and unstemmed weight (creating a postings element of 3 positions for stemmed terms). It is possible to provide ranking using signature files (for details on signature files, see Chapter 4 on that subject). This is not a major factor for small data sets and for some retrieval environments, especially those involved in research into new retrieval mechanisms. In this chapter, we discuss the state-of-the-art method for how predictive analytics can be leveraged to improve the QoE from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. Freqik = the frequency of term i in document k 1976. This is not a major factor for small data sets and for some retrieval environments, especially those involved in research into new retrieval mechanisms. HARMAN, D. 1986. SPARCK JONES, K. 1972. If it is determined that the ranking system must also handle adjacency or field restrictions, then either the index must record the additional location information (field location, word position within record, and so on) as described for Boolean inverted files, or an alternative method (see section 14.8.4) can be used that does not increase storage but increases response time when using these particular operations. In the area of parsing, this may mean relaxing the rules about hyphenation to create indexing both in hyphenated and nonhyphenated form. HARMAN, D., and G. CANDELA. Setting C to 1 ranks the documents by IDF weighting within number of matches, a method that was suitable for the manually indexed Cranfield collection used in this study (because it can be assumed that each matching query term was very significant). Relevance weighting is discussed further in Chapter 11 on relevance feedback. "A Document Retrieval System Based on Nearest Neighbor Searching." The SMART Retrieval System -- Experiments in Automatic Document Processing. In 1982, MEDLINE had approximately 600,000 on-line records, with records being added at a rate of approximately 21,000 per month (Doszkocs 1982). "Retrieving Records from a Gigabyte of Text on a Minicomputer using Statistical Ranking." J. of Information Science, 6, 25-33. "A Review of the Use of Inverted Files for Best Match Searching in Information Retrieval Systems." Berlin: Springer-Verlag. From these statistics it is clear that efficient storage structures for both the binary search and the reading of the postings are critical. clustering using "nearest neighbor" techniques 14.8.4 Use of Ranking in Two-level Search Schemes efficient clustering techniques [Author Willett] efficient clustering techniques [Author Willett] This extension, however, limits the Boolean capability and increases response time when using Boolean operators. This chapter has presented a survey of statistical ranking models and experiments, and detailed the actual implementation of a basic ranking retrieval system. 14.7.3 A Boolean System with Ranking "Term Conflation for Information Retrieval." These records can be retrieved in the normal manner, but pruned before addition to the retrieved record list (and therefore not sorted). 1985. This model is based on the premise that terms that appear in previously retrieved relevant documents for a given query should be given a higher weight than if they had not appeared in those relevant documents. per query (no pruning) Average response time 0.38 1.2 2.6 4.1 Signature files have also been used in SIBRIS, an operational information retrieval system (Wade et al. "Retrieving Records from a Gigabyte of Text on a Minicomputer using Statistical Ranking." J. : Addison-Wesley. Go to Chapter 15     Back to Table of Contents. This tailoring seems to be particularly critical for manually indexed or controlled vocabulary data where use of within-document frequencies may even hurt performance. The basic indexing and search processes described in section 14.6 suggest no manner of coping with this problem, as the original record terms are not stored in the inverted file; only their stems are used. Their inverted file consists of the dictionary containing the terms and pointers to the postings file, but the dictionary is not alphabetically sorted. DENNIS, S. F. 1964. 109-45. CROFT, W. B. DENNIS, S. F. 1964. SPARCK JONES, K. 1981. Two different measures for the distribution of a term within a document collection were used, the IDF measure by Sparck Jones and a revised implementation of the "noise" measure (Dennis 1964; Salton and McGill 1983). TFreqi = the total frequency of term i in the collection Information Science, 15, 249-60. Because users are often most concerned with recent records, they seldom request to search many segments. 14.9 SUMMARY (1983). "A Statistical Approach to Mechanized Encoding and Searching of Literary Information." If a query has only high-frequency terms (several user queries had this problem), then pruning cannot be done (or a fancier algorithm needs to be created). 3. Although other small-scale operational systems using ranking exist, often their ranking algorithms are not clear from publications, and so these are not listed here. "Evaluation of the 2-Poisson Model as a Basis for Using Term Frequency Data in Searching." Somewhat less ideally, only the dictionary could be stored in memory, with disk access for the postings file. COOPER, W. S., and M. E. MARON. 28-37. IBM J. 1983. 1. "The Measurement of Term Importance in Automatic Indexing." A possible alternative is the noise or entropy measure tried in several experiments . Information Services and Use, 4(1/2), 37-47. Croft and Savino (1988) provide a ranking technique that combines the IDF measure with an estimated normalized within-document frequency, using simple modifications of the standard signature file technique (see the chapter on signature files). 6. Paper presented at ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Brussels, Belgium. The transfer entropy method has been shown to be the most robust compared to the cross-correlation and nearest neighbour methods and is also useful in the absence of noticeable time delays between variables (Bauer, 2005). An Evaluation of Factors Affecting Document Ranking by Information Retrieval Systems. The indexing and retrieval were based on the singular value decomposition (related to factor analysis) of a term-document matrix from the entire document collection. Documentation, 35(4), 285-95. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Montreal, Canada. If the IDF is greater than or equal to one third the maximum IDF of any term in the data set, then repeat steps 2, 3, and 4. Not only is this likely to be a faster access method than the binary search, but it also creates an extendable dictionary, with no reordering for updates. 14.8.2 Ranking and Clustering BERNSTEIN, L. M., and R. E. WILLIAMSON. "Comparing and Combining the Effectiveness of Latent Semantic Indexing and the Ordinary Vector Space Model for Information Retrieval." Examples of these types of restrictions would be requirements involving Boolean operators, proximity operators, special publication dates, specific authors, or the use of phrases instead of simple terms. 2. "Retrieving Records from a Gigabyte of Text on a Minicomputer using Statistical Ranking." New York: Elsevier Science Publishers. New York: Elsevier Science Publishers. Ideally, both files could be read into memory when a data set is opened. This was done in Croft's experimental re trieval system (Croft and Ruggles 1984). A major time bottleneck in the basic search process is the sort of the accumulators for large data sets. After stemming, each term in the query is checked against the inverted file (this could be done by using the binary search described in section 14.6). In this manner the dictionary used in the binary search has only one "line" per unique term. 1990. the queries would be parsed into single terms and the documents ranked as if there were no special syntax. 14.8.1 Ranking and Relevance Feedback 14.8.3 Ranking and Boolean Systems Two different measures for the distribution of a term within a document collection were used, the IDF measure by Sparck Jones and a revised implementation of the "noise" measure (Dennis 1964; Salton and McGill 1983). RAGHAVAN, V. V., H. P. SHI, and C. T. YU. 1976. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Montreal, Canada. Paper presented at ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Brussels, Belgium. C was set much lower in tests with the UKCIS2 collection (Harper 1980) because the terms were assumed to be less accurate, and the documents were very short (consisting of titles only). These records are still sorted, but serve only to increase sort time, as they are seldom, if ever, useful. Association for Computing Machinery, 15(1), 8-36. 1990. New York: Elsevier Science Publishers. Information Science, 6, 59-66. "A Performance Yardstick for Test Collections." 1968. Full-text indexing was used on various standard test collections, with full-text indexing also done on the queries. Using the following examples Documentation, 31(4), 266-72. "Automatic Ranked Output from Boolean Searches in SIRE." maxfreqj = the maximum frequency of any term in document j Work using large data sets (Harman and Candela 1990) showed that for a file of 2,653 records, there were 5,123 unique terms with an average of 14 postings/term and a maximum of over 2,000 postings for a term. "From Research to Application: The CITE Natural Language Information Retrieval System," in Research and Development in Information Retrieval, eds. This option would improve response time considerably over option 1, although option 3 may be somewhat faster (depending on search hardware). It is assumed that a natural language query is passed to the search process in some manner, and that the list of ranked record id numbers that is returned by the search process is used as input to some routine which maps these ids onto data locations and displays a list of titles or short data descriptors for user selection. 1981. "Foundations of Probabilistic and Utility-Theoretic Indexing." Table 14.1 shows some timing results of this pruning algorithm. "Surrogate Subsets: A Free Space Management Strategy for the Index of a Text Retrieval System." Note that the binary search described in the basic search process could be replaced with the hashing method to further decrease response time for searching using the basic search process. J. J. M. Williams, pp. "Operations Research Applied to Document Indexing and Retrieval Decisions." Of particular interest in these experiments were the term-weighting schemes relying on term importance within an entire collection rather than only within a given document. 1974. LUCARELLA, D. 1983. J. American Society for Information Science, 28(6), 333-39. "The Construction of a Thesaurus Automatically from a Sample of Text." In this manner the dictionary used in the binary search has only one "line" per unique term. 1979. The most well known of the set-oriented models are the clustering models where a query is ranked against a hierarchically grouped set of related documents. J. American Society for Information Science, 32(3), 175-86. 1976. "Experiments in Relevance Weighting of Search Terms." If a query has only high-frequency terms (several user queries had this problem), then pruning cannot be done (or a fancier algorithm needs to be created). , t2, t3, produce more equal participation among group members highly structured Base! 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