org.terrier.matching.models

Class Js_KLs

java.lang.Object

org.terrier.matching.models.WeightingModel

org.terrier.matching.models.Js_KLs

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Model

public class Js_KLs
extends WeightingModel

This class implements the Js_KLs weighting model, which is the product of two measures: the Jefrreys' divergence with the Kullback Leibler's divergence. The two measures are obtained by the addition of one query token. Then Jefrreys' divergence and the information growth in the document by Kullback Leibler's divergence are computed. The model computes the product of these two information measures as amount of information carried by a single query token. Js_KLs is an unsupervised model (parameter free model) of IR.

Js_KLs has a high performance but it can be used with verbose queries. In particular, it has statistically or moderately significant better MAP performance than most of the supervised models with long queries on the terabyte collection (GOV2) with the exception of PL2. MAP for long topics, and comparative p values (two-tailed paired t-test) compared to supervised models (with optimal MAP parameter values) are as follows:

Queries	MAP of JS_KLs	LGD	Dirichlet_LM	PL2	BM25	In_expB2
long	0.3178	(>) p=1.7E-17	(>) p=0.0544	(<) p=0.3155	(>) p=0.7866	(>) p=5151

References

1. Frequentist and Bayesian approach to Information Retrieval. G. Amati. In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2006). LNCS vol 3936, pages 13--24.

Since:

3.5

Author:

Gianni Amati

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.terrier.matching.models.WeightingModel

averageDocumentLength, c, cs, documentFrequency, es, i, keyFrequency, numberOfDocuments, numberOfPointers, numberOfTokens, numberOfUniqueTerms, rq, termFrequency

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Js_KLs() A default constructor to make this model.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getInfo() Returns the name of the model, in this case "Js_KLs"
double	score(double tf, double docLength) Uses Js_KLs to compute a weight for a term in a document.

Methods inherited from class org.terrier.matching.models.WeightingModel

clone, getOverflowed, getParameter, prepare, score, setCollectionStatistics, setEntryStatistics, setKeyFrequency, setParameter, setRequest

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Js_KLs

public Js_KLs()

A default constructor to make this model.

Method Detail

getInfo

public final String getInfo()

Returns the name of the model, in this case "Js_KLs"

Specified by:

getInfo in interface Model

Specified by:

getInfo in class WeightingModel

Returns:

the name of the model

score

public final double score(double tf,
           double docLength)

Uses Js_KLs to compute a weight for a term in a document.

Specified by:

score in class WeightingModel

Parameters:

tf - The term frequency of the term in the document

docLength - the document's length

Returns:

the score assigned to a document with the given tf and docLength, and other preset parameters