Modern search engines have to be fast to satisfy users, so there are hard back-end latency requirements. The set of features useful for search ranking functions, though, continues...
Feng Pan, Tim Converse, David Ahn, Franco Salvetti...
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs; Lafferty, McCallum, & Pereira, 2001) provide a flexible and powerful model for learning to assign labels to elements of sequences in such appl...
Thomas G. Dietterich, Adam Ashenfelter, Yaroslav B...
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...
In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for multi-task learning with boosted decision trees. We learn several different learning tasks with a joint model, explicitly addressing...
Olivier Chapelle, Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy, Srin...
Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...