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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Suppressing outliers in pairwise preference ranking
Many of the recently proposed algorithms for learning feature-based ranking functions are based on the pairwise preference framework, in which instead of taking documents in isola...
Vitor R. Carvalho, Jonathan L. Elsas, William W. C...
KDD
2005
ACM
177views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
ICDE
2007
IEEE
121views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating Different Ranking Functions for Context-Based Literature Search
Context-based literature digital library search is a new search paradigm that creates an effective ranking of query outputs by controlling query output topic diversity. We define ...
Nattakarn Ratprasartporn, Sulieman Bani-Ahmad, Ali...
NIPS
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to Order Things
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of ...
William W. Cohen, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Exploiting Bilingual Information to Improve Web Search
Web search quality can vary widely across languages, even for the same information need. We propose to exploit this variation in quality by learning a ranking function on bilingua...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou, Kam-Fai Wong