Expert finding addresses the problem of retrieving a ranked list of people who are knowledgeable on a given topic. Several models have been proposed to solve this task, but so far...
The book covers the following topics: examining the structure of HTTP requests, monitoring the packets being transferred between a web server and web browser, executing simple HTTP...
We present an on-line learning framework tailored towards real-time learning from observed user behavior in search engines and other information retrieval systems. In particular, ...
We investigate using gradient descent methods for learning ranking functions; we propose a simple probabilistic cost function, and we introduce RankNet, an implementation of these...
Christopher J. C. Burges, Tal Shaked, Erin Renshaw...
We consider the problem of improving the performance of web access by proposing a reconstruction of the internal link structure of a web site in order to match the quality of the ...
John D. Garofalakis, Panagiotis Kappos, Christos M...