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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Clickthrough-based translation models for web search: from word models to phrase models
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Jian-Yun Nie
WSDM
2010
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Quality of Training Data for Learning to Rank Using Click-Through Data
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Are click-through data adequate for learning web search rankings?
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Xiaojie Yuan, Ji-Rong W...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
The paper proposes identifying relevant information sources from the history of combined searching and browsing behavior of many Web users. While it has been previously shown that...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White
KDD
2002
ACM
169views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
14 years 4 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims