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CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Feature selection for ranking using boosted trees
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...
ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Training conditional random fields via gradient tree boosting
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...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Model Adaptation via Model Interpolation and Boosting for Web Search Ranking
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...
KDD
2010
ACM
257views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Multi-task learning for boosting with application to web search ranking
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...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Learning effective ranking functions for newsgroup search
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...
Wensi Xi, Jesper Lind, Eric Brill