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NIPS
2007
13 years 5 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Learning to rank relational objects and its application to web search
Learning to rank is a new statistical learning technology on creating a ranking model for sorting objects. The technology has been successfully applied to web search, and is becom...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Identifying primary content from web pages and its application to web search ranking
Web pages are usually highly structured documents. In some documents, content with different functionality is laid out in blocks, some merely supporting the main discourse. In ot...
Srinivas Vadrevu, Emre Velipasaoglu
KDD
2010
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Multi-task learning for boosting with application to web search ranking
In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for multi-task learning with boosted decision trees. We learn several different learning tasks with a joint model, explicitly addressing...
Olivier Chapelle, Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy, Srin...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Ranking refinement and its application to information retrieval
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
Rong Jin, Hamed Valizadegan, Hang Li