Abstract. Learning ranking functions is crucial for solving many problems, ranging from document retrieval to building recommendation systems based on an individual user’s prefer...
The ranking problem appears in many areas of study such as customer rating, social science, economics, and information retrieval. Ranking can be formulated as a classification pro...
Abstract. Mainstream surrogate approaches for multi-objective problems build one approximation for each objective. Mono-surrogate approaches instead aim at characterizing the Paret...
This paper is concerned with the generalization ability of learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval (IR). We point out that the key for addressing the learning proble...
Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Hang...
In this paper, we evaluate a number of machine learning techniques for the task of ranking answers to why-questions. We use TF-IDF together with a set of 36 linguistically motivate...
Suzan Verberne, Hans van Halteren, Daphne Theijsse...