This paper studies global ranking problem by learning to rank methods. Conventional learning to rank methods are usually designed for `local ranking', in the sense that the r...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...
The principle of maximum entropy provides a powerful framework for statistical models of joint, conditional, and marginal distributions. However, there are many important distribu...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...
Abstract. Implicit acquisition of user preferences makes log-based collaborative filtering favorable in practice to accomplish recommendations. In this paper, we follow a formal ap...
Jun Wang, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders