Axiomatic Retrieval Experimentation with ir_axioms
Alexander Bondarenko, Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Benno Stein, Michael Völske, Matthias Hagen · Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · 2022
Axiomatic approaches to information retrieval have played a key role in determining basic constraints that characterize good retrieval models. Beyond their importance in retrieval theory, axioms have been operationalized to improve an initial ranking, to "guide" retrieval, or to explain some model's rankings. However, recent open-source retrieval frameworks like PyTerrier and Pyserini, which made it easy to experiment with sparse and dense retrieval models, have not included any retrieval axiom support so far.