Deep Learning Relevance: Creating Relevant Information (as Opposed to Retrieving it)

Christina Lioma, Birger Larsen, Casper Petersen, Jakob Grue Simonsen

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Abstract

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
Title of host publicationNeu-IR '16 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, July 21, 2016, Pisa, Italy
Publication date2016
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventNeu-IR '16 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, July 21, 2016, Pisa, Italy - Pisa, Italy
Duration: 21 Jul 201621 Jul 2016

Workshop

WorkshopNeu-IR '16 SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, July 21, 2016, Pisa, Italy
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPisa
Period21/07/201621/07/2016

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