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DSS
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A machine learning approach to web page filtering using content and structure analysis
As the Web continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to search for relevant information using traditional search engines. Topic-specific search engines provide an al...
Michael Chau, Hsinchun Chen
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Semi-supervised learning of semantic classes for query understanding: from the web and for the web
Understanding intents from search queries can improve a user’s search experience and boost a site’s advertising profits. Query tagging via statistical sequential labeling mode...
Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szyma...
NIPS
2007
14 years 11 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
LREC
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
L-ISA: Learning Domain Specific Isa-Relations from the Web
Automated extraction of ontological knowledge from text corpora is a relevant task in Natural Language Processing. In this paper, we focus on the problem of finding hypernyms for ...
Alessandra Potrich, Emanuele Pianta
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Are click-through data adequate for learning web search rankings?
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Xiaojie Yuan, Ji-Rong W...