SOTAVerified

PACRR: A Position-Aware Neural IR Model for Relevance Matching

2017-04-12EMNLP 2017Code Available0· sign in to hype

Kai Hui, Andrew Yates, Klaus Berberich, Gerard de Melo

Code Available — Be the first to reproduce this paper.

Reproduce

Code

Abstract

In order to adopt deep learning for information retrieval, models are needed that can capture all relevant information required to assess the relevance of a document to a given user query. While previous works have successfully captured unigram term matches, how to fully employ position-dependent information such as proximity and term dependencies has been insufficiently explored. In this work, we propose a novel neural IR model named PACRR aiming at better modeling position-dependent interactions between a query and a document. Extensive experiments on six years' TREC Web Track data confirm that the proposed model yields better results under multiple benchmarks.

Tasks

Reproductions