The paper is concerned with learning to rank, which is to construct a model or a function for ranking objects. Learning to rank is useful for document retrieval, collaborative fil...
Zhe Cao, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Ming-Feng Tsai, Han...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Social media websites promote diverse user interaction on media objects as well as user actions with respect to other users. The goal of this work is to discover community structu...
Yu-Ru Lin, Jimeng Sun, Paul Castro, Ravi B. Konuru...
Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that...
Sponsored search is one of the enabling technologies for today's Web search engines. It corresponds to matching and showing ads related to the user query on the search engine...