Scoring missing terms in information retrieval tasks
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Abstract
An usual approach to address mismatching vocabulary problem is to augment the original query using dictionaries and other lexical resources and/or by looking at pseudo-relevant documents. Either way, terms are added to form a new query that will be used to score all documents in a subsequent retrieval pass, and as consequence the original query's focus may drift because of the newly added terms. We propose a new method to address the mismatching vocabulary problem, expanding original query terms only when necessary and complementing the user query for missing terms while scoring documents. It allows related semantic aspects to be included in a conservative and selective way, thus reducing the possibility of query drift. Our results using replacements for the <i>missing query terms</i> in modified document and passages retrieval methods show significant improvement over the original ones.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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