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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Learning consensus opinion: mining data from a labeling game
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Classification-based resource selection
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Jaime Arguello, Jamie Callan, Fernando Diaz
ARCS
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Latent Semantic Indexing in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all pee...
Xuezheng Liu, Ming Chen, Guangwen Yang
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
The paper proposes identifying relevant information sources from the history of combined searching and browsing behavior of many Web users. While it has been previously shown that...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White