Published March 1, 2022 | Version 1.0
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M4D-MKLab/ITI-CERTH Participation in TREC Deep Learning Track 2021

  • 1. Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Description

Our team’s (CERTH ITI M4D) goal in the TREC Deep Learning Track was to study how the Con-
textualized Embedding Query Expansion (CEQE) [1] method performs in such setting and how our
proposed modifications affect the performance. In particular, we examine how CEQE performs with
the addition of bigrams as potential expansion terms, and how an IDF weight component affects
the performance. The first run we submitted is produced by a query expansion pipeline that uses
BM25 for retrieval and CEQE with the IDF modification for query expansion. The second submitted
run used a modification of CEQE with the addition of bigrams as candidate expansion terms and a
re-ranking step using CEDR. Our runs showed promising results, especially for Average Precision.

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Funding

INFINITY – IMMERSE. INTERACT. INVESTIGATE 883293
European Commission
CREST – Fighting Crime and TerroRism with an IoT-enabled Autonomous Platform based on an Ecosystem of Advanced IntelligEnce, Operations, and InveStigation Technologies 833464
European Commission
CONNEXIONs – InterCONnected NEXt-Generation Immersive IoT Platform of Crime and Terrorism DetectiON, PredictiON, InvestigatiON, and PreventiON Services 786731
European Commission