Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for information retrieval and summarization
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Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) is an information retrieval and summarization technique that selects results by jointly maximizing relevance to a query while minimizing redundancy among the chosen items.
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| Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for information retrieval and summarization canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for information retrieval and summarization Context triple: [Jaime Carbonell, notableWork, Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for information retrieval and summarization]
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Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
"Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents" is a seminal machine learning paper that introduced the Paragraph Vector (Doc2Vec) method for learning continuous vector representations of variable-length text such as sentences, paragraphs, and documents.
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B.
DSSM
DSSM is the post-nominal abbreviation used by recipients of the U.S. Defense Superior Service Medal, a high-level military decoration awarded for superior meritorious service in a position of significant responsibility.
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C.
Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
"Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation" is a seminal research paper that introduced the RNN encoder–decoder architecture to learn continuous phrase representations for improving statistical machine translation quality.
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D.
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
"Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks" is a seminal 2014 paper that introduced the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) neural network framework for tasks like machine translation, laying the groundwork for many modern NLP models.
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E.
Attention Is All You Need
"Attention Is All You Need" is the landmark 2017 research paper that introduced the Transformer architecture and revolutionized modern natural language processing and sequence modeling.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for information retrieval and summarization Target entity description: Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) is an information retrieval and summarization technique that selects results by jointly maximizing relevance to a query while minimizing redundancy among the chosen items.
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A.
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
"Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents" is a seminal machine learning paper that introduced the Paragraph Vector (Doc2Vec) method for learning continuous vector representations of variable-length text such as sentences, paragraphs, and documents.
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B.
DSSM
DSSM is the post-nominal abbreviation used by recipients of the U.S. Defense Superior Service Medal, a high-level military decoration awarded for superior meritorious service in a position of significant responsibility.
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C.
Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
"Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation" is a seminal research paper that introduced the RNN encoder–decoder architecture to learn continuous phrase representations for improving statistical machine translation quality.
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D.
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
"Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks" is a seminal 2014 paper that introduced the sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) neural network framework for tasks like machine translation, laying the groundwork for many modern NLP models.
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E.
Attention Is All You Need
"Attention Is All You Need" is the landmark 2017 research paper that introduced the Transformer architecture and revolutionized modern natural language processing and sequence modeling.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
diversity-based re-ranking method
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information retrieval technique ⓘ ranking algorithm ⓘ summarization technique ⓘ |
| abbreviation | MMR ⓘ |
| algorithmType | greedy selection algorithm ⓘ |
| alsoUsedFor |
image retrieval diversification
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video retrieval diversification ⓘ |
| appliedTo |
document retrieval
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extractive summarization ⓘ multi-document summarization ⓘ passage retrieval ⓘ query-focused summarization ⓘ recommendation systems ⓘ search result diversification ⓘ snippet selection ⓘ |
| assumes | access to pairwise similarity between items ⓘ |
| benefit |
improves user-perceived diversity
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increases coverage of different subtopics ⓘ reduces redundancy in result lists ⓘ |
| canUse | any similarity function satisfying basic properties ⓘ |
| category |
diversity-aware ranking
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redundancy reduction method ⓘ |
| coreIdea |
penalize similarity to already selected items
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trade off between query relevance and novelty ⓘ |
| field |
information retrieval
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natural language processing ⓘ text summarization ⓘ |
| goal |
maximize relevance to a query
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minimize redundancy among selected items ⓘ promote diversity in retrieved results ⓘ |
| hasParameter | lambda ⓘ |
| influenced |
later diversification methods in IR
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subtopic retrieval models ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
Jade Goldstein
NERFINISHED
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Jaime G. Carbonell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedIn | paper "The Use of MMR, Diversity-Based Reranking for Reordering Documents and Producing Summaries" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lambdaControls | trade-off between relevance and diversity ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| publishedAt | SIGIR 1998 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
coverage-based summarization
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determinantal point processes NERFINISHED ⓘ novelty-based ranking ⓘ query-focused extractive summarization ⓘ |
| selectionCriterion | maximizes marginal gain in relevance minus redundancy ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | iteratively selects items ⓘ |
| typicalDomain | text documents ⓘ |
| typicalRepresentation | vector space model ⓘ |
| typicalSimilarityMeasure | cosine similarity GENERATED ⓘ |
| uses |
linear combination of relevance and redundancy terms
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similarity between candidate item and query ⓘ similarity between candidate item and selected items ⓘ |
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Subject: Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) for information retrieval and summarization Description of subject: Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR) is an information retrieval and summarization technique that selects results by jointly maximizing relevance to a query while minimizing redundancy among the chosen items.
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