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ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Regression Rank: Learning to Meet the Opportunity of Descriptive Queries
Abstract. We present a new learning to rank framework for estimating context-sensitive term weights without use of feedback. Specifically, knowledge of effective term weights on ...
Matthew Lease, James Allan, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Learning to rank for quantity consensus queries
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Somnath Banerjee, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ganesh Ramak...
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...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Empirical Exploitation of Click Data for Task Specific Ranking
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to Rank Answers on Large Online QA Collections
Mihai Surdeanu, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Hugo Zarag...