We investigate using gradient descent methods for learning ranking functions; we propose a simple probabilistic cost function, and we introduce RankNet, an implementation of these...
Christopher J. C. Burges, Tal Shaked, Erin Renshaw...
The classical (ad hoc) document retrieval problem has been traditionally approached through ranking according to heuristically developed functions (such as tf.idf or bm25) or gene...
This paper is concerned with a new task of ranking, referred to as "supplementary data assisted ranking", or "supplementary ranking" for short. Different from c...
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...