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...
One of the main difficulties in computing information theoretic learning (ITL) estimators is the computational complexity that grows quadratically with data. Considerable amount ...
With the advent of Web 2.0 tagging became a popular feature. People tag diverse kinds of content, e.g. products at Amazon, music at Last.fm, images at Flickr, etc. Clicking on a t...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...
Complex search tasks that utilize information from several data sources, are answered by integrating the results of distinct basic search queries. In such integration, each basic ...