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IR
2011
14 years 8 months ago
Learning to rank for why-question answering
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...
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Learning to Rank Online
Abstract. As retrieval systems become more complex, learning to rank approaches are being developed to automatically tune their parameters. Using online learning to rank approaches...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
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ICML
2007
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
On learning linear ranking functions for beam search
Beam search is used to maintain tractability in large search spaces at the expense of completeness and optimality. We study supervised learning of linear ranking functions for con...
Yuehua Xu, Alan Fern
DASFAA
2005
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
Learning Tree Augmented Naive Bayes for Ranking
Naive Bayes has been widely used in data mining as a simple and effective classification algorithm. Since its conditional independence assumption is rarely true, numerous algorit...
Liangxiao Jiang, Harry Zhang, Zhihua Cai, Jiang Su
ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Training Data Cleaning for Text Classification
Abstract. In text classification (TC) and other tasks involving supervised learning, labelled data may be scarce or expensive to obtain; strategies are thus needed for maximizing t...
Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani