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Mixed initiative searchMaarten de Rijke
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• Based on joint work with David Graus, Evangelos Kanoulas, Edgar Meij, Daan Odijk, Ridho Reinanda, Manos Tsagkias, Christophe Van Gysel, Nikos Voskarides, Wouter Weerkamp, Marcel Worring, Masrour Zoghi
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It’s all about entities
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• Entities (people, locations, organizations, …) play central organizing role
• In search
• in web search, up to 70% of the queries are entity queries (Lin et al., 2012; Guo et al., 2011)
• in academic search, the proportion of queries that contain entities is over 93% (Li et al., 2016)
• increasingly, entities are retrievable items
It’s all about entities
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Where are we now?
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• Diverse intents
• You know an entity by the stuff it hangs out with
• Words
• Facets
• Entities
• Organizations relations
• …
Information needs around entities
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• Mine search logs to discover aspects
• Prioritizing entity display
• Providing direct action
• “Query-less” entity-oriented diversification
• Supporting complex search tasks
• Knowledge base design/construction
Discovering entity aspects
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• Automatically generate human-readable explanations of related entities
• Mine large volumes of text: fragments in which entities co-occur
Entity relations
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• Update description of long tail entity with information from range of sources
• Learn to adjust representations based on clicks
• Enriching the representation with additional descriptions helps improve retrieval
• Continuously updating the ranker helps
Entity updates
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DCER
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• Unsupervised model construction, efficient entity capabilities query, and semantic matching between query terms and candidate entities
• Learn mappings between words and entities, as well as distributed representations of words and entities
• Words that are strongly evidential for particular products are projected nearby those products
• Very effective, highly scalable
Unsupervised entity ranking
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What is next?
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Image taken from K. Hofmann, S. Whiteson, and M. de Rijke. Balancing exploration and exploitation in online learning to rank. In ECIR 2011, April 2011.
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• Go beyond the traditional search engine result page
• What should the search engine say?
• When should it switch?
With all of that information around an entity
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• Old-fashioned search engine result page (SERP)?
• Direct answer?
• Engage in a conversation?
• Generate a news article?
• Produce a timeline?
• Multi-document summary?
• Wikipedia page?
What should a search engine say?
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• Working with media professionals in an audiovisual archive
• It is their business to create narratives
• Wrapping extensive interviewing rounds with media professionals
• Next
• Annotate and mine semantic aspects of narratives media professionals create
• Learning templates for SERP generation
• Learning to re-order elements on the SERP
• Generating natural language to connect the elements
Example: narrative search
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Example: Engage in a conversation
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• Run an A/B test
• Explore online
• Learn from historical data (“counterfactual reasoning”)
When should should it switch?
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Would people buy it?
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document listaction at
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Based on K. Hofmann, S. Whiteson, and M. de Rijke. Balancing exploration and exploitation in online learning to rank. In ECIR 2011, April 2011.
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