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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Learning effective ranking functions for newsgroup search
Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...
Wensi Xi, Jesper Lind, Eric Brill
KDD
2009
ACM
248views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 13 hour ago
PSkip: estimating relevance ranking quality from web search clickthrough data
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Kuansan Wang, Toby Walker, Zijian Zheng
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to rank relevant and novel documents through user feedback
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Abhimanyu Lad, Yiming Yang
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Document Ranking by Layout Relevance
This paper describes the development of a new document ranking system based on layout similarity. The user has a need represented by a set of ”wanted” documents, and the syste...
May Huang, Daniel DeMenthon, David S. Doermann, Ly...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu