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, ...
This paper is to investigate rank aggregation based on multiple user-centered measures in the context of the web search. We introduce a set of techniques to combine ranking lists ...
This paper explores two classes of model adaptation methods for Web search ranking: Model Interpolation and error-driven learning approaches based on a boosting algorithm. The res...
Jianfeng Gao, Qiang Wu, Chris Burges, Krysta Marie...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Gradient Boosted Regression Trees (GBRT) are the current state-of-the-art learning paradigm for machine learned websearch ranking — a domain notorious for very large data sets. ...
Stephen Tyree, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Kunal Agrawal...