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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Answer models for question answering passage retrieval
Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
Andrés Corrada-Emmanuel, W. Bruce Croft
GECCO
2009
Springer
109views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 6 days ago
A genetic algorithm for learning significant phrase patterns in radiology reports
Radiologists disagree with each other over the characteristics and features of what constitutes a normal mammogram and the terminology to use in the associated radiology report. R...
Robert M. Patton, Thomas E. Potok, Barbara G. Beck...
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
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Optimal scheduling of probabilistic repetitive projects using completed unit and genetic algorithms
In this paper we introduce the completed unit algorithm (CU-AL), a probabilistic scheduling methodology for repetitive projects. The algorithm has two main advantages, simplicity ...
Chachrist Srisuwanrat, Photios G. Ioannou
IR
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Adapting boosting for information retrieval measures
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...