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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Learning to rank from a noisy crowd
We study how to best use crowdsourced relevance judgments learning to rank [1, 7]. We integrate two lines of prior work: unreliable crowd-based binary annotation for binary classi...
Abhimanu Kumar, Matthew Lease
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
13 years 11 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-...
KDD
2008
ACM
147views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 5 months ago
Structured learning for non-smooth ranking losses
Learning to rank from relevance judgment is an active research area. Itemwise score regression, pairwise preference satisfaction, and listwise structured learning are the major te...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Rajiv Khanna, Uma Sawant, Chir...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Top-k learning to rank: labeling, ranking and evaluation
In this paper, we propose a novel top-k learning to rank framework, which involves labeling strategy, ranking model and evaluation measure. The motivation comes from the difficul...
Shuzi Niu, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan