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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...
IPM
2008
100views more  IPM 2008»
13 years 6 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...
GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 25 days ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
KDD
2005
ACM
177views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 6 months ago
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Ranking definitions with supervised learning methods
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
Jun Xu, Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Min Zhao