In a social news website people share content they found on the web, called news, then vote for those they like the most. Voting for a news is then considered as a recommendation,...
Thomas Largillier, Guillaume Peyronnet, Sylvain Pe...
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...
The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
We investigate the effectiveness of both the standard evaluation measures and the opinion component for topical opinion retrieval. We analyze how relevance is affected by opinio...
Giambattista Amati, Giuseppe Amodeo, Valerio Capoz...
Query performance prediction is aimed at predicting the retrieval effectiveness that a query will achieve with respect to a particular ranking model. In this paper, we study quer...