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IPM
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Query-level loss functions for information retrieval
Many machine learning technologies such as support vector machines, boosting, and neural networks have been applied to the ranking problem in information retrieval. However, since...
Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang, Ming-Feng Tsai, De-Sheng W...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Relevance information: a loss of entropy but a gain for IDF?
When investigating alternative estimates for term discriminativeness, we discovered that relevance information and idf are much closer related than formulated in classical literat...
Arjen P. de Vries, Thomas Rölleke
WSDM
2010
ACM
194views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Ranking with Query-Dependent Loss for Web Search
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
Jiang Bian, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hongyuan Zha
SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
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...