Cross-lingual document retrieval using regularized wasserstein distance

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Abstract

Many information retrieval algorithms rely on the notion of a good distance that allows to efficiently compare objects of different nature. Recently, a new promising metric called Word Mover’s Distance was proposed to measure the divergence between text passages. In this paper, we demonstrate that this metric can be extended to incorporate term-weighting schemes and provide more accurate and computationally efficient matching between documents using entropic regularization. We evaluate the benefits of both extensions in the task of cross-lingual document retrieval (CLDR). Our experimental results on eight CLDR problems suggest that the proposed methods achieve remarkable improvements in terms of Mean Reciprocal Rank compared to several baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 40th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2018, Proceedings
EditorsLeif Azzopardi, Gabriella Pasi, Allan Hanbury, Benjamin Piwowarski
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages398-410
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319769400
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event40th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2018 - Grenoble, France
Duration: 26 Mar 201829 Mar 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10772 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference40th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2018
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityGrenoble
Period26/03/1829/03/18

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