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We consider the Structured Information Retrieval task which consists in ranking nested textual units according to their relevance for a given query, in a collection of structured documents. We propose to improve the performance of a baseline Information Retrieval system by using a learning ranking algorithm which operates on scores computed from document elements and from their local structural context. This model is trained to optimize a Ranking Loss criterion using a training set of annotated examples composed of queries and relevance judgments on a subset of the document elements. The model can produce a ranked list of documents elements which fulfills a given information need expressed in the query. We analyze the performance of our algorithm on the INEX collection and compare it to a baseline model which is an adaptation of Okapi to Structured Information Retrieval.
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Vittaut, JN., Gallinari, P. (2006). Machine Learning Ranking for Structured Information Retrieval. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_30
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