Deep learning relevance: creating relevant information (as opposed to retrieving it)

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What if Information Retrieval (IR) systems did not just retrieve relevant information that is stored in their indices, but could also "understand" it and synthesise it into a single
document? We present a preliminary study that makes a first step towards answering this question.

Given a query, we train a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) on existing relevant information to that query. We then use the RNN to "deep learn" a single, synthetic, and we assume, relevant document for that query. We design a crowdsourcing experiment to assess how relevant the "deep learned" document is, compared to existing relevant documents. Users are shown a query and four wordclouds (of three existing relevant documents and our deep learned synthetic document). The synthetic document is ranked on average most relevant of all.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2016
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventSIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR) - Pisa, Italy
Duration: 21 Jul 201621 Jul 2016
Conference number: 1

Conference

ConferenceSIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR)
Number1
CountryItaly
CityPisa
Period21/07/201621/07/2016

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