We investigate the problem of ranking answers to a database query when many tuples are returned. We adapt and apply principles of probabilistic models from Information Retrieval f...
In regression problems, making accurate predictions is often the primary goal. Also, relevance of inputs in the prediction of an output would be valuable information in many cases....
The existing search engines sometimes give unsatisfactory search result for lack of any categorization. If there is some means to know the preference of user about the search resul...
We describe our participation in the INEX 2009 Entity Ranking track. We employ a probabilistic retrieval model for entity search in which term-based and category-based representati...
Krisztian Balog, Marc Bron, Maarten de Rijke, Wout...
This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence and...