—Ordinal regression (OR – also known as ordinal classification) has received increasing attention in recent times, due to its importance in IR applications such as learning to...
Stefano Baccianella, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebast...
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
In this paper, an approach for the implementation of a qualitybased Web search engine is proposed. Quality retrieval is introduced and an overview on previous efforts to implement...
Recently the re-ranking algorithms have been quite popular for web search and data mining. However, one of the issues is that those algorithms treat the content and link informati...
We introduce a multi-stage ensemble framework, ErrorDriven Generalist+Expert or Edge, for improved classification on large-scale text categorization problems. Edge first trains a ...