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COLING
2010
14 years 4 months ago
Cross-Market Model Adaptation with Pairwise Preference Data for Web Search Ranking
Machine-learned ranking techniques automatically learn a complex document ranking function given training data. These techniques have demonstrated the effectiveness and flexibilit...
Jing Bai, Fernando Diaz, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, ...
70
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PAMI
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A Fast Algorithm for Learning a Ranking Function from Large-Scale Data Sets
We consider the problem of learning a ranking function that maximizes a generalization of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney statistic on the training data. Relying on an -accurate approxim...
Vikas C. Raykar, Ramani Duraiswami, Balaji Krishna...
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CORR
2010
Springer
153views Education» more  CORR 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
The Automatic Synthesis of Linear Ranking Functions: The Complete Unabridged Version
The classical technique for proving termination of a generic sequential computer program involves the synthesis of a ranking function for each loop of the program. Linear ranking ...
Roberto Bagnara, Fred Mesnard, Andrea Pescetti, En...
90
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NIPS
2003
14 years 10 months ago
Log-Linear Models for Label Ranking
Label ranking is the task of inferring a total order over a predefined set of labels for each given instance. We present a general framework for batch learning of label ranking f...
Ofer Dekel, Christopher D. Manning, Yoram Singer
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ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Learning to Select a Ranking Function
Abstract. Learning To Rank (LTR) techniques aim to learn an effective document ranking function by combining several document features. While the function learned may be uniformly ...
Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
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ECML
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Pairwise Preference Learning and Ranking
We consider supervised learning of a ranking function, which is a mapping from instances to total orders over a set of labels (options). The training information consists of exampl...
Johannes Fürnkranz, Eyke Hüllermeier
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ICALP
2005
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
The Polyranking Principle
Although every terminating loop has a ranking function, not every loop has a ranking function of a restricted form, such as a lexicographic tuple of polynomials over program variab...
Aaron R. Bradley, Zohar Manna, Henny B. Sipma
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ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
T-Man: Gossip-Based Overlay Topology Management
Overlay topology plays an important role in P2P systems. Topology serves as a basis for achieving functions such as routing, searching and information dissemination, and it has a m...
Márk Jelasity, Özalp Babaoglu
93
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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Incorporating prior knowledge into a transductive ranking algorithm for multi-document summarization
This paper presents a transductive approach to learn ranking functions for extractive multi-document summarization. At the first stage, the proposed approach identifies topic th...
Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier
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GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...