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EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 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...
IR
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
NIPS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient feature weighting methods for ranking
Feature weighting or selection is a crucial process to identify an important subset of features from a data set. Removing irrelevant or redundant features can improve the generali...
Hwanjo Yu, Jinoh Oh, Wook-Shin Han
ICDE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Efficient Aggregation of Ranked Inputs
A top-k query combines different rankings of the same set of objects and returns the k objects with the highest combined score according to an aggregate function. We bring to ligh...
Nikos Mamoulis, Kit Hung Cheng, Man Lung Yiu, Davi...