Deep Neural Network for Learning to Rank Query-Text Pairs

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of document ranking in information retrieval systems by Learning to Rank. We propose ConvRankNet combining a Siamese Convolutional Neural Network encoder and the RankNet ranking model which could be trained in an end-to-end fashion. We prove a general result justifying the linear test-time complexity of pairwise Learning to Rank approach. Experiments on the OHSUMED dataset show that ConvRankNet outperforms systematically existing feature-based models.