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Integrating Representation and Interaction for Context-Aware Document Ranking

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Ji-Rong WenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volume 41, Issue 1

Article No.: 21, Pages 1 - 23

https://doi.org/10.1145/3529955

Published: 10 January 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Recent studies show that historical behaviors (such as queries and their clicks) contained in a search session can benefit the ranking performance of subsequent queries in the session. Existing neural context-aware ranking models usually rank documents based on either latent representations of user search behaviors or the word-level interactions between the candidate document and each historical behavior in the search session. However, these two kinds of models both have their own drawbacks. Representation-based models neglect fine-grained information on word-level interactions, whereas interaction-based models suffer from the length restriction of session sequence because of the large cost of word-level interactions. To complement the limitations of these two kinds of models, we propose a unified context-aware document ranking model that takes full advantage of both representation and interaction. Specifically, instead of matching a candidate document with every single historical query in a session, we encode the session history into a latent representation and use this representation to enhance the current query and the candidate document. We then just match the enhanced query and candidate document with several matching components to capture the fine-grained information of word-level interactions. Rich experiments on two public query logs prove the effectiveness and efficiency of our model for leveraging representation and interaction.

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Published: 10 January 2023

Online AM: 14 April 2022

Accepted: 30 March 2022

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