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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
On Biases in Information Retrieval Models and Evaluation
Contributor:
Lipani, Aldo
Published:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019
Published in:
ACM SIGIR Forum, 52 (2019) 2, Seite 172-173
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1145/3308774.3308804
ISSN:
0163-5840
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
The advent of the modern information technology has benefited society as the digitization of content increased over the last half-century. While the processing capability of our species has remained unchanged, the information available to us has been notably increasing. In this overload of information, Information Retrieval (IR) has been playing a prominent role by developing systems capable of separating relevant information from the rest. This separation, however, is a difficult task rooted in the complexity of understanding of what is and what is not relevant. To manage this complexity, IR has developed a strong empirical nature, which has led to the development of grounded retrieval models, resulting in the development of retrieval systems empirically designed to be biased towards relevant information. However, other biases have been observed, which counteract retrieval performance. In this thesis, the reduction of retrieval systems to filters of information, or sampling processes, has allowed us to systematically investigate these biases.