Relevance Feedback and Deep Neural Network-Based Semantic Method for Query Expansion

Abstract

Machine learning techniques have been widely used in almost every area of arts, science, and technology for the last two decades. Document analysis and query expansion also use machine learning techniques at a broad scale for information retrieval tasks. The state-of-the-art models like the Bo1 model, Bo2 model, KL divergence model, and chi-square model are probabilistic, and they work on DFR-based retrieval models. These models are much focused on term frequency and do not care about the semantic relationship among the terms. The proposed model applies the semantic method to find the semantic similarity among the terms to expand the query. The proposed method uses the relevance feedback method that selects a user-assisted most relevant document from top “ k ” initially retrieved documents and then applies deep neural network technique to select the most informative terms related to original query terms. The results are evaluated at FIRE 2011 ad hoc English test collection. The mean average precision of the proposed method is 0.3568. The proposed method also compares the state-of-the-art models. The proposed model observed 19.77% and 8.05% improvement on the mean average precision (MAP) parameter with respect to the original query and Bo1 model, respectively.