This paper presents an approach for the Opinion Finding task at TREC 2008 Blog Track. For the Ad-hoc Retrieval subtask, we adopt language model to retrieve relevant documents. For...
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
Abstract We present a new ranking algorithm that combines the strengths of two previous methods: boosted tree classification, and LambdaRank, which has been shown to be empiricall...
Qiang Wu, Christopher J. C. Burges, Krysta Marie S...
We consider Bayesian information collection, in which a measurement policy collects information to support a future decision. This framework includes ranking and selection, continu...
Random binary matrices have found many applications in signal processing and coding. Rateless codes, for example, are based on the random generation of codewords by means of inner...
Paulo Jorge S. G. Ferreira, Bruno Jesus, Jose Viei...