Research Article

Study of Query Expansion Techniques and Their Application in the Biomedical Information Retrieval

Table 5

Testing values of the parameters for BM25. MAP is used as the evaluation measure.
(a) The best value obtained for the parameter

CombinationsParameters
00.751.210.751.220.751.21.50.751.21.30.751.21.20.751.21.40.751.2

Porter stemmer-NLM stopwords
0.15210.18030.17920.17920.18070.17980.1792
Porter stemmer-SMART stopwords
0.15310.18200.17830.17880.18130.18150.1807
Krovetz stemmer-NLM stopwords
0.15210.17970.17780.18020.18040.18060.1799
Krovetz stemmer-SMART stopwords0.15570.18280.17930.18010.18240.18150.1819

The bold font refers to the best values for the parameters.
(b) The best value obtained for the parameter

CombinationsParameters
1.301.21.311.21.30.751.21.30.651.21.30.61.21.30.551.21.30.701.2

Porter stemmer-NLM stopwords
0.1652 0.17150.18070.18100.18240.18210.1799
Porter stemmer-SMART stopwords
0.1669 0.16950.18130.18160.18140.18080.1817
Krovetz stemmer-NLM stopwords
0.1667 0.17060.18040.18020.18190.18190.1795
Krovetz stemmer-SMART stopwords0.1701 0.17070.18240.18230.18240.18210.1818

The bold font refers to the best values for the parameters.
(c) The best value obtained for the parameter.

CombinationsParameters
1.30.601.30.611.30.621.30.671.30.61.51.30.61.21.30.61.3

Porter stemmer-NLM stopwords
0.1824 0.18250.18240.18170.18230.18240.1822
Porter stemmer-SMART stopwords
0.1814 0.18130.18130.18100.18140.18140.1814
Krovetz stemmer-NLM stopwords
0.1811 0.18190.18250.18150.18220.18190.1819
Krovetz stemmer-SMART stopwords0.1817 0.18220.18200.18150.18240.18240.1824

The bold font refers to the best values for the parameters.