In supervised machine learning, variable ranking aims at sorting the input variables according to their relevance w.r.t. an output variable. In this paper, we propose a new relevan...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Predictive data mining typically relies on labeled data without exploiting a much larger amount of available unlabeled data. The goal of this paper is to show that using unlabeled...
Kang Peng, Slobodan Vucetic, Bo Han, Hongbo Xie, Z...
Traditional ranking mainly focuses on one type of data source, and effective modeling still relies on a sufficiently large number of labeled or supervised examples. However, in m...
Bo Wang, Jie Tang, Wei Fan, Songcan Chen, Zi Yang,...
User browsing information, particularly their non-search related activity, reveals important contextual information on the preferences and the intent of web users. In this paper, ...