Sciweavers

785 search results - page 12 / 157
» A Framework for Decentralized Ranking in Web Information Ret...
Sort
View
IR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Gradient descent optimization of smoothed information retrieval metrics
Abstract Most ranking algorithms are based on the optimization of some loss functions, such as the pairwise loss. However, these loss functions are often different from the criter...
Olivier Chapelle, Mingrui Wu
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Merging Techniques for Performing Data Fusion on the Web
Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
Theodora Tsikrika, Mounia Lalmas
VLDB
1990
ACM
116views Database» more  VLDB 1990»
13 years 11 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Vague Queries and Imprecise Information in Databases
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
Norbert Fuhr
IR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
MEDES
2009
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Web page ranking based on fuzzy and learning automata
The main goal of web pages ranking is to find the interrelated pages. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm called FPR-DLA. In the proposed method learning automata is assigned...
Zohreh Anari, Mohammad Reza Meybodi, Babak Anari