A new crossover technique, we named Rank and Proximity Based Crossover (RPC), to improve the speed and quality of solutions in Genetic search, is proposed. In the proposed strategy...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
Clustering is often used to discover structure in data. Clustering systems differ in the objective function used to evaluate clustering quality and the control strategy used to se...
Interleaving experiments are an attractive methodology for evaluating retrieval functions through implicit feedback. Designed as a blind and unbiased test for eliciting a preferen...
Yisong Yue, Yue Gao, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, T...
Techniques for being able to automatically identify acronym patterns are very important for enhancing a multitude of applications that rely upon search. This task is challenging, d...