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Semantic Search Evaluation

Information Retrieval 2024-10-30 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

We propose a novel method for evaluating the performance of a content search system that measures the semantic match between a query and the results returned by the search system. We introduce a metric called "on-topic rate" to measure the percentage of results that are relevant to the query. To achieve this, we design a pipeline that defines a golden query set, retrieves the top K results for each query, and sends calls to GPT 3.5 with formulated prompts. Our semantic evaluation pipeline helps identify common failure patterns and goals against the metric for relevance improvements.

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@article{arxiv.2410.21549,
  title  = {Semantic Search Evaluation},
  author = {Chujie Zheng and Jeffrey Wang and Shuqian Albee Zhang and Anand Kishore and Siddharth Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21549},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Accepted by 3rd International Workshop on Industrial Recommendation Systems (at CIKM 2024)

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