CS473: Course Review CS-473. Luo Si Department of Computer Science Purdue University

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1 CS473: CS-473 Course Review Luo Si Department of Computer Science Purdue University

2 Basic Concepts of IR: Outline Basic Concepts of Information Retrieval: Task definition of Ad-hoc IR Terminologies and concepts Overview of retrieval models Text representation Indexing Text preprocessing Evaluation Evaluation methodology Evaluation metrics

3 Ad-hoc IR: Terminologies Terminologies: Query Representative data of user s information need: text (default) and other media Document Data candidate to satisfy user s information need: text (default) and other media Database Collection Corpus A set of documents Corpora A set of databases Valuable corpora from TREC (Text Retrieval Evaluation Conference)

4 Some core concepts of IR Information Need Representation Query Retrieval Model Indexed Objects Retrieved Objects Representation Returned Results Evaluation/Feedback

5 Text Representation: Indexing Statistical Properties of Text Zipf s law: relate a term s frequency to its rank Rank all terms with their frequencies in descending order, for a term at a specific rank (e.g., r) collects and calculates f r : term frequency Zipf s law (by observation): p A/ r A 0.1 r p r fr N : relative term frequency Total number of words fr A So pr rfr AN log( r) log( fr ) log( AN) N r So Rank X Frequency = Constant

6 Text Representation: Text Preprocessing Text Preprocessing: extract representative index terms Parse query/document for useful structure E.g., title, anchor text, link, tag in xml.. Tokenization For most western languages, words separated by spaces; deal with punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation For Chinese, Japanese: more complex word segmentation Remove stopwords: (remove the, is,..., existing standard list) Morphological analysis (e.g., stemming): Stemming: determine stem form of given inflected forms Other: extract phrases; decompounding for some European languages

7 Evaluation Evaluation criteria Effectiveness Favor returned document ranked lists with more relevant documents at the top Objective measures Recall and Precision Mean-average precision Rank based precision For documents in a subset of a ranked lists, if we know the truth Precision= Relevant docs retrieved Retrieved docs Recall= Relevant docs retrieved Relevant docs

8 Evaluation Pooling Strategy Retrieve documents using multiple methods Judge top n documents from each method Whole retrieved set is the union of top retrieved documents from all methods Problems: the judged relevant documents may not be complete It is possible to estimate size of true relevant documents by randomly sampling

9 Evaluation Single value metrics Mean average precision Calculate precision at each relevant document; average over all precision values 11-point interpolated average precision Calculate precision at standard recall points (e.g., 10%, 20%...); smooth the values; estimate 0 % by interpolation Average the results Rank based precision Calculate precision at top ranked documents (e.g., 5, 10, 15 ) Desirable when users care more for top ranked documents

10 Evaluation Sample Results

11 Retrieval Models: Outline Retrieval Models Exact-match retrieval method Unranked Boolean retrieval method Ranked Boolean retrieval method Best-match retrieval method Vector space retrieval method Latent semantic indexing

12 Retrieval Models: Unranked Boolean Unranked Boolean: Exact match method Selection Model Retrieve a document iff it matches the precise query Often return unranked documents (or with chronological order) Operators Logical Operators: AND OR, NOT Approximately operators: #1(white house) (i.e., within one word distance, phrase) #sen(iraq weapon) (i.e., within a sentence) String matching operators: Wildcard (e.g., ind* for india and indonesia) Field operators: title(information and retrieval)

13 Retrieval Models: Unranked Boolean Advantages: Work well if user knows exactly what to retrieve Predicable; easy to explain Very efficient Disadvantages: It is difficult to design the query; high recall and low precision for loose query; low recall and high precision for strict query Results are unordered; hard to find useful ones Users may be too optimistic for strict queries. A few very relevant but a lot more are missing

14 Retrieval Models: Ranked Boolean Ranked Boolean: Exact match Similar as unranked Boolean but documents are ordered by some criterion Reflect importance of document by its words Retrieve docs from Wall Street Journal Collection Query: (Thailand AND stock AND market) Which word is more important? Many stock and market, but fewer Thailand. Fewer may be more indicative Term Frequency (TF): Number of occurrence in query/doc; larger number means more important Total number of docs Inversed Document Frequency (IDF): Number of docs Larger means more important contain a term There are many variants of TF, IDF: e.g., consider document length

15 Retrieval Models: Ranked Boolean Ranked Boolean: Calculate doc score Term evidence: Evidence from term i occurred in doc j: (tf ij ) and (tf ij *idf i ) AND weight: minimum of argument weights OR weight: maximum of argument weights Min=0.2 AND Max=0.6 OR Term evidence Query: (Thailand AND stock AND market)

16 Retrieval Models: Ranked Boolean Advantages: All advantages from unranked Boolean algorithm Works well when query is precise; predictive; efficient Results in a ranked list (not a full list); easier to browse and find the most relevant ones than Boolean Rank criterion is flexible: e.g., different variants of term evidence Disadvantages: Still an exact match (document selection) model: inverse correlation for recall and precision of strict and loose queries Predictability makes user overestimate retrieval quality

17 Retrieval Models: Vector Space Model Vector space model Any text object can be represented by a term vector Documents, queries, passages, sentences A query can be seen as a short document Similarity is determined by distance in the vector space Example: cosine of the angle between two vectors The SMART system Developed at Cornell University: Still quite popular

18 Retrieval Models: Vector Space Model Vector representation Java D 3 D1 Query D 2 Sun Starbucks

19 Retrieval Models: Vector Space Model Give two vectors of query and document query as document as calculate the similarity q ( q1, q2,..., q n ) d ( d, d,..., d ) j j 1 j 2 jn Cosine similarity: Angle between vectors sim( q, d j) cos( ( q, d j)) ( qd, j ) q d j cos( ( qd, j )) qd q d q d... q d q d q d... q d q d q d q... q d... d j 1 j,1 2 j,2 j j, n 1 j,1 2 j,2 j j, n n j1 jn

20 Retrieval Models: Vector Space Model Vector Coefficients The coefficients (vector elements) represent term evidence/ term importance It is derived from several elements Document term weight: Evidence of the term in the document/query Collection term weight: Importance of term from observation of collection Length normalization: Reduce document length bias Naming convention for coefficients: q. d DCL. DCL k j, k First triple represents query term; second for document term

21 Retrieval Models: Vector Space Model Common vector weight components: lnc.ltc: widely used term weight l : log(tf)+1 n : no weight/normalization t : log(n/df) c : cosine normalization q d 1 j1 q 2 d j2 q d.. q j n d jn log( tf ( k) 1 log( tf ( k) 1 2 log( tf q ( k) 1 log( tf j ( k) 1 k k q k j N log df ( k) N log df ( k) 2

22 Retrieval Models: Vector Space Model Advantages: Best match method; it does not need a precise query Generated ranked lists; easy to explore the results Simplicity: easy to implement Effectiveness: often works well Flexibility: can utilize different types of term weighting methods Used in a wide range of IR tasks: retrieval, classification, summarization, content-based filtering

23 Retrieval Models: Vector Space Model Disadvantages: Hard to choose the dimension of the vector ( basic concept ); terms may not be the best choice Assume independent relationship among terms Heuristic for choosing vector operations Choose of term weights Choose of similarity function Assume a query and a document can be treated in the same way

24 Retrieval Models: Latent Semantic Indexing Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI): Explore correlation between terms and documents Two terms are correlated (may share similar semantic concepts) if they often co-occur Two documents are correlated (share similar topics) if they have many common words Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI): Associate each term and document with a small number of semantic concepts/topics

25 Query Expansion: Outline Query Expansion via Relevant Feedback Relevance Feedback Blind/Pseudo Relevance Feedback Query Expansion via External Resources Thesaurus Industrial Chemical Thesaurus, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Semantic network WordNet

26 Query Expansion: Relevance Feedback Vector Space Model Goal: Move new query close to relevant documents and far away from irrelevant documents Approach: New query is a weighted average of original query, and relevant and non-relevant document vectors q 1 1 ' q i i (Rocchio formula) R d NR d d R d NR i i

27 Web Search Spam Detection Content spam; link spam; Source size estimation Capture-Recapture Model What is the assumption? How to calculate? Duplicate detection

28 Text Categorization (I) Outline Introduction to the task of text categorization Manual v.s. automatic text categorization Text categorization applications Evaluation of text categorization K nearest neighbor text categorization method

29 Text Categorization Automatic text categorization Learn algorithm to automatically assign predefined categories to text documents /objects automatic or semi-automatic Procedures Training: Given a set of categories and labeled document examples; learn a method to map a document to correct category (categories) Testing: Predict the category (categories) of a new document Automatic or semi-automatic categorization can significantly reduce the manual efforts

30 K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier Idea: find your language by what language your neighbors speak (k=1) (k=5) Use K nearest neighbors to vote

31 K Nearest Neighbor: Technical Elements Document representation Document distance measure: closer documents should have similar labels; neighbors speak the same language Number of nearest neighbors (value of K) Decision threshold

32 K Nearest Neighbor: Framework Training data Test data Scoring Function Classification: D {(x M x R i ŷ(x), y i )}, 1 k x x D i k i (x) R M sim(x,,docs, The neighbor hood is 1 if y(x) ˆ t 0 0 otherwise x i )y i y i {0,1} D k D Document Representation: X i uses tf.idf weighting for each dimension

33 Content Based Filtering Filtering Information Needs are Stable System should make a delivery decision on the fly when a document arrives User Profile: Filtering System

34 Content Based Filtering Filtering Information Needs are Stable System should make a delivery decision on the fly when a document arrives User profile are built by some initialization information and the historical feedback information from a user (e.g., relevant concept extracted from relevant documents) The delivery decision is made by analyzing the content information of a document

35 Three Main Problems in CBF Three problems Initialization: Initialize the user profile with several key words or very few examples Delivery Decision Making: new documents -> yes/no based on current user profile Learning: utilize relevance feedback information from users to update user profile (only on recommended documents)

36 Collaborative Filtering Outline Introduction to collaborative filtering Main framework Memory-based collaborative filtering approach Model-based collaborative filtering approach Aspect model & Two-way clustering model Flexible mixture model Decouple model Unified filtering by combining content and collaborative filtering

37 Federated Search Outline Introduction to federated search Main research problems Resource Representation Resource Selection Results Merging A unified utility maximization framework for federated search Modeling search engine effectiveness

38 Federated Search Components of a Federated Search System and Two Important Applications Engine 1 Engine 2 Engine 3 Engine Engine N (1) Resource Representation (2) Resource Selection (3) Results Merging Information source recommendation: Recommend information sources for users text queries (e.g., completeplanet.com): Steps 1 and 2 Federated document retrieval: Also search selected sources and merge individual ranked lists into a single list: Steps 1, 2 and 3

39 Clustering Document clustering Motivations Document representations Success criteria Clustering algorithms K-means Model-based clustering (EM clustering)

40 Link Analysis Outline The characteristics of Web structure (small world) Hub & Authority Algorithms Authority Value, Hubness Value Page Rank Algorithm (Page Rank Value) Relation with the computation of eigenvector