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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 6 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
COLT
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Margin-Based Ranking Meets Boosting in the Middle
Abstract. We present several results related to ranking. We give a general margin-based bound for ranking based on the L∞ covering number of the hypothesis space. Our bound sugge...
Cynthia Rudin, Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Robe...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Learning to rank from Bayesian decision inference
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Jen-Wei Kuo, Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Min Wang
EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Model Adaptation via Model Interpolation and Boosting for Web Search Ranking
This paper explores two classes of model adaptation methods for Web search ranking: Model Interpolation and error-driven learning approaches based on a boosting algorithm. The res...
Jianfeng Gao, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta Marie...
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...