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Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP): Advancing IR Research in Russia

ROMIP is a TREC-like initiative in Russia since 2002, featuring text and image collections, yearly evaluations, and unique tasks like news clustering and snippet generation. It aims to stimulate IR research, involving academia, industry, and students for independent evaluation with freely available collections. With 3000+ man-hours of evaluation in 2009, ROMIP serves as a popular testbed for Information Retrieval in Russia, fostering community consolidation and research stimulation.

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Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP): Advancing IR Research in Russia

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  1. Russian Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP)http://romip.ru/en/ Igor Nekrestyanov, PavelBraslavski CLEF 2010

  2. ROMIP at a glance • TREC-like Russian initiative • Started 2002 • Several text and image collections • 10-15 participants per year (total 50+) • Academia and industry, students support • ~3 000 man-hours of evaluation (2009) • Remote participation + live meeting • Collections are freely available • Popular testbed for IR research in Russia • Related activities: summer school in IR ROMIP

  3. Why? • Russia specifics • Strong IR industry • Limited research in academia • Participation in global events considered complicated for Russian groups (language barrier, costs, etc.) • Russian language was not covered in international campaigns • Objectives • Consolidate IR community • Stimulate research in the area • Independent evaluation ROMIP

  4. Evaluation methodology • Similar to TREC approaches • What’s special? • Russian language collections • Some tasks are unique • E.g. news clustering, snippet generation, etc. • Mix of widely used and custom metrics • E.g. snippet informativeness/readability • Typically 2+ assessors (agreement 80-85%) • Domain experts for legal-related tracks • Rules and methodology are adjusted yearly ROMIP

  5. Largest text collections ROMIP

  6. Text documents tracks • Classic tracks run for years • Ad-hoc text retrieval • Text categorization (Web pages & sites, legal) • Experimental tracks every year • Snippet generation • QA and fact extraction • News clustering • Search by sample document ROMIP

  7. Snippets evaluation ROMIP

  8. Image collections • Photo collection: 20 000 images from Flickr • Dups collection: 15 hrs video  37 800 frames ROMIP 9

  9. Image tracks • Content based image retrieval (started 2008) • 750 tasks labeled • Near-duplicate detection (started 2008) • ~1500 clusters • Image annotation (started 2010) • ~ 1000 labeled images ROMIP 10

  10. ROMIP timeline 3000 man-hours eval. news ROMIP image tracks QAimage tagging news snippets legal 2007 BY.Web KM.RU legal search classification ROMIP

  11. Thank you! Questions? PavelBraslavski pb@yandex-team.ru Igor Nekrestyanov romip@romip.ru ROMIP

  12. RuSSIR • Put RuSSIRpic here • Annual event • 100+ participants • 4thRuSSIR: Voronezh 13-18 September • http://romip.ru/russir2010/ ROMIP

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