Poster Title:

Query-Driven Indexing for Peer-to-Peer Text Retrieval

Authors:

• Gleb Skobeltsyn (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))
• Toan Luu (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))
• Ivana Podnar Zarko (University of Zagreb)
• Martin Rajman (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))
• Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))

Abstract:

We describe a query-driven indexing framework for scalable text retrieval over structured P2P networks. To cope with the bandwidth consumption problem that has been identified as the major obstacle for full-text retrieval in P2P networks, we truncate posting lists associated with indexing features to a constant size storing only top-k ranked document references. To compensate for the loss of information caused by the truncation, we extend the set of indexing features with carefully chosen term sets. Indexing term sets are selected based on the query statistics extracted from query logs to index only such combinations that are a) frequently present in user queries and b) non-redundant w.r.t the rest of the index. The distributed index is compact and efficient as it constantly evolves adapting to the current query popularity distribution. Moreover, it is possible to tradeoff the storage/bandwidth requirements with the query answering quality by tuning the indexing parameters. Our theoretical analysis and experimental results indicate that we can indeed achieve scalable P2P text retrieval for very large document collections and deliver good retrieval performance.