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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Incorporating prior knowledge into a transductive ranking algorithm for multi-document summarization
This paper presents a transductive approach to learn ranking functions for extractive multi-document summarization. At the first stage, the proposed approach identifies topic th...
Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier
DA
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Paradoxes in Learning and the Marginal Value of Information
We consider the Bayesian ranking and selection problem, in which one wishes to allocate an information collection budget as efficiently as possible to choose the best among severa...
Peter Frazier, Warren B. Powell
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A general magnitude-preserving boosting algorithm for search ranking
Traditional boosting algorithms for the ranking problems usually employ the pairwise approach and convert the document rating preference into a binary-value label, like RankBoost....
Chenguang Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Gang...