We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
Often scientists seek to search for articles on the Web related to a particular chemical. When a scientist searches for a chemical formula using a search engine today, she gets ar...
Bingjun Sun, Qingzhao Tan, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee...
Web search components such as ranking and query suggestions analyze the user data provided in query and click logs. While this data is easy to collect and provides information abo...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan ...
The availability of web search has revolutionised the way people discover information, yet as search services maintain larger and larger indexes they are in danger of becoming a v...
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...