Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...
Started in 1998, the search engine Google estimates page importance using several parameters. PageRank is one of those. Precisely, PageRank is a distribution of probability on the ...
Boosted PRIM (Patient Rule Induction Method) is a new algorithm developed for two-class classification problems. PRIM is a variation of those Tree-Based methods ( [4] Ch9.3), seek...
Pei Wang, Young Kim, Jonathan R. Pollack, Robert T...
Text search engines return a set of k documents ranked by similarity to a query. Typically, documents and queries are drawn from natural language text, which can readily be partiti...
J. Shane Culpepper, Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Pugl...
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...