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TREC
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on...
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo,...
KDD
2007
ACM
192views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Active exploration for learning rankings from clickthrough data
We address the task of learning rankings of documents from search engine logs of user behavior. Previous work on this problem has relied on passively collected clickthrough data. ...
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
AACC
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Mining Top - k Ranked Webpages Using Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms
Searching on the Internet has grown in importance over the last few years, as huge amount of information is invariably accumulated on the Web. The problem involves locating the des...
P. Deepa Shenoy, K. G. Srinivasa, Achint Oommen Th...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Query suggestion using hitting time
Generating alternative queries, also known as query suggestion, has long been proved useful to help a user explore and express his information need. In many scenarios, such sugges...
Qiaozhu Mei, Dengyong Zhou, Kenneth Ward Church
KDD
2006
ACM
167views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Identifying "best bet" web search results by mining past user behavior
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
Eugene Agichtein, Zijian Zheng