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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Supervised rank aggregation
This paper is concerned with rank aggregation, the task of combining the ranking results of individual rankers at meta-search. Previously, rank aggregation was performed mainly by...
Yu-Ting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Han...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Surrogate scoring for improved metasearch precision
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
ICML
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
On the Consistency of Ranking Algorithms
We present a theoretical analysis of supervised ranking, providing necessary and sufficient conditions for the asymptotic consistency of algorithms based on minimizing a surrogate...
John Duchi, Lester W. Mackey, Michael I. Jordan
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Question answering passage retrieval using dependency relations
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
FQAS
2009
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
On the Selection of the Best Retrieval Result Per Query - An Alternative Approach to Data Fusion
Some recent works have shown that the “perfect” selection of the best IR system per query could lead to a significant improvement on the retrieval performance. Motivated by thi...
Antonio Juárez-González, Manuel Mont...