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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
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...
KDD
2005
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
SVM selective sampling for ranking with application to data retrieval
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...
Hwanjo Yu
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...
ECAI
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Aggregation Functions for Expert Search
Abstract. Machine learning techniques are increasingly being applied to problems in the domain of information retrieval and text mining. In this paper we present an application of ...
Ronan Cummins, Mounia Lalmas, Colm O'Riordan