This paper is concerned with relevance ranking in search, particularly that using term dependency information. It proposes a novel and unified approach to relevance ranking using ...
Machine-learned ranking techniques automatically learn a complex document ranking function given training data. These techniques have demonstrated the effectiveness and flexibilit...
Jing Bai, Fernando Diaz, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, ...
Maximal word functions occur in data retrieval applications and have connections with ranking problems, which in turn were rst investigated in relation to data compression 21 . By ...
Kleene’s theorem on recognizable languages in free monoids is considered to be of eminent importance in theoretical computer science. It has been generalized into various directi...
— We consider the situation where users rank items from a given set, and each user ranks only a (small) subset of all items. We assume that users can be classified into C classe...