The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Ranking Web search results has long evolved beyond simple bag-of-words retrieval models. Modern search engines routinely employ machine learning ranking that relies on exogenous r...
Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josif...
In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for multi-task learning with boosted decision trees. We learn several different learning tasks with a joint model, explicitly addressing...
Olivier Chapelle, Pannagadatta K. Shivaswamy, Srin...
This paper proposes an effective approach to provide relevant search terms for conceptual Web search. ‘Semantic Term Suggestion’ function has been included so that users can f...
Multimedia uploaded content is tagged and recommended by users of collaborative systems, resulting in informal classifications also known as folksonomies. Faceted web ranking has ...