Abstract. We propose a number of techniques for learning a global ranking from data that may be incomplete and imbalanced -- characteristics that are almost universal to modern dat...
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 ...
Abstract. Machine learning ranking methods are increasingly applied to ranking tasks in information retrieval (IR). However ranking tasks in IR often differ from standard ranking t...
Abstract—A probabilistic kernel approach to pairwise preference learning based on Gaussian processes is applied to predict preference judgments for sound quality degradation mech...
Perry Groot, Tom Heskes, Tjeerd Dijkstra, James M....
We study the problem of learning to rank images for image retrieval. For a noisy set of images indexed or tagged by the same keyword, we learn a ranking model from some training e...