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ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Listwise approach to learning to rank: theory and algorithm
This paper aims to conduct a study on the listwise approach to learning to rank. The listwise approach learns a ranking function by taking individual lists as instances and minimi...
Fen Xia, Tie-Yan Liu, Jue Wang, Wensheng Zhang, Ha...
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Jun Wang
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
Portfolio theory of information retrieval
This paper studies document ranking under uncertainty. It is tackled in a general situation where the relevance predictions of individual documents have uncertainty, and are depen...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating Document Clustering for Interactive Information Retrieval
We consider the problem of organizing and browsing the top ranked portion of the documents returned by an information retrieval system. We study the effectiveness of a document o...
Anton Leuski
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Ranking queries on uncertain data: a probabilistic threshold approach
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...
Ming Hua, Jian Pei, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin