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IR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Gradient descent optimization of smoothed information retrieval metrics
Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
Olivier Chapelle, Mingrui Wu
RSKT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Optimal Parameters in Decision-Theoretic Rough Sets
A game-theoretic approach for learning optimal parameter values for probabilistic rough set regions is presented. The parameters can be used to define approximation regions in a p...
Joseph P. Herbert, Jingtao Yao
IPM
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A risk minimization framework for information retrieval
This paper presents a probabilistic information retrieval framework in which the retrieval problem is formally treated as a statistical decision problem. In this framework, querie...
ChengXiang Zhai, John D. Lafferty
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Adapting ranking SVM to document retrieval
The paper is concerned with applying learning to rank to document retrieval. Ranking SVM is a typical method of learning to rank. We point out that there are two factors one must ...
Yunbo Cao, Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li, Yalou Hua...
SISAP
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
High-Dimensional Similarity Retrieval Using Dimensional Choice
There are several pieces of information that can be utilized in order to improve the efficiency of similarity searches on high-dimensional data. The most commonly used information...
Dave Tahmoush, Hanan Samet