Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...
An important application of semantic web technology is recognizing human-defined concepts in text. Query transformation is a strategy often used in search engines to derive querie...
Edgar Meij, Marc Bron, Laura Hollink, Bouke Huurni...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...
Many ranking models have been proposed in information retrieval, and recently machine learning techniques have also been applied to ranking model construction. Most of the existin...
Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Andrew Arnold, H...